Depression causes persistent feelings of sadness. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is when depression symptoms occur in ...

October is recognized globally as Depression Education and Awareness Month, a vital initiative dedicated to shedding light on a prevalent yet often misunderstood mental health condition. This month ...

Imagine wading through severe depression for years, taking medication after medication, with no relief. Now, envision discovering that what you were facing was not major depression but bipolar ...

If you have seasonal affective disorder in the colder months (aka winter-pattern SAD), you may experience the following ...

A new study has linked two types of depression, atypical and melancholic, to an increased risk of certain cardiometabolic ...

Mood disorders include depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. These types of psychiatric disorders affect a person’s emotions and may cause severe lows, called depression, and highs, called mania ...

The approval of medicines called second-generation antipsychotics has allowed major depressive disorder (MDD) and other conditions linked to it to be treated. A person with MDD is usually prescribed ...

Researchers led by Prof. Alessandro Serretti at Kore University of Enna have identified a genetic inflammatory signature that defines specific depression subtypes and influences how patients respond ...

Researchers analyzed 153 participants aged 18-62 years (mean age, 36 years) diagnosed with BED and enrolled in the US Binge Eating Treatment and Recovery program between 2020 and 2023. Participants ...

Lithium is a medication meant to stabilize mood and is most commonly used in people with bipolar disorder, depression, or ...

Women are affected by severe depression twice as often as men. The reasons for this have not yet been fully clarified.