A region of the brain that responds to bad experiences has the opposite reaction to expectations of aversive events in people with depression compared to healthy adults, finds a new University College ...

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.

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.

A brain network involved in motivation and attention is larger in people with depression. The difference is also visible in people before they develop depression symptoms. Depression symptoms may come ...

Scientists have pinpointed specific neurons and microglia, crucial for emotion and inflammation, as key players in depression. This breakthrough, using advanced brain tissue analysis, reveals ...

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 ...

Cambridge neuroscientists discover five distinct stages of brain development from birth to 90, revealing key turning points ...

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 ...