Researchers have identified a brain mechanism that may determine why chronic pain leads to depression in some individuals but not others. The findings suggest the brain initially adapts to persistent ...

Scientists identified two types of brain cells, neurons and microglia, that are altered in people with depression. Through genomic mapping of post-mortem brain tissue, they found major differences in ...

A new comprehensive analysis has revealed that major depressive disorder alters both the physical architecture and the electrical activity of the brain in the same specific regions. By mapping these ...

Researchers have discovered a surprising change in how cells produce energy in people with depression. Brain and blood cells in young adults with major depressive disorder produced more energy ...

Psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in so-called magic mushrooms, is emerging as one of the most intriguing tools in modern psychiatry, not because it numbs symptoms but because it appears to ...

Summer passed Valerie Zeko by when she was 27, as she vegged out on the couch watching TV instead of seeing friends or exploring the overcast beach near her house. She later learned that period was ...

Brain implants that deliver electric pulses can ease depression in people who aren't responding to psychiatric drugs, a new study says. Half of a small group of people who received brain implants ...

Your brain changes dramatically when you have both anxiety and depression. Source: Photo by Natasha Connell on Unsplash Neuroscientists have continued delving into the relationship between the brain ...

A new study, published today in JAMA Network Open, reveals that schoolage children and adolescents with medically diagnosed ...