A recent study in Nature used precision functional mapping to understand better, at the brain level, the neurobiological mechanisms behind distinct depressive symptoms and mood changes over time.

Depressive disorder affects roughly five percent of adults worldwide. The mental health condition is characterized by low mood, loss of pleasure in activities, poor concentration and low self-worth.

A recent study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has examined the similarities and differences between three common mental disorders: ...

Could a discovery in scanning enable psychiatrists to spot the neurological causes of depression in patients’ brains and treat them, just as doctors can identify broken bones with an X-ray? That’s the ...

Depression doesn’t mean you’re always feeling low. Sure, most times it’s hard to crawl out of bed or get motivated. Once in a while, however, you feel a spark of your old self—only to get sucked back ...

A new study investigating neuroinflammation in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the brain, a small, midbrain dopaminergic region, has found that acute and chronic depression are associated with ...

A new clinical trial shows that deep brain stimulation (DBS) improved symptoms in half of adults with treatment-resistant depression, with one-third reaching remission.

American Psychological Association (APA) defines depression as a serious mental health condition that is characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, emptiness, or irritability accompanied by ...

Now researchers have discovered one reason why this occurs - a single genetic switch that triggers loss of brain connections in humans and depression in animal models. The findings show that the ...