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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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

The research constitutes some of the first evidence that the condition is associated with modifications in the brain before childbirth. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck covers maternal mental health and ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a biological “blueprint” that shows how the brain’s smallest building blocks create the large networks that drive thought, emotion, and behavior.