From the University of Edinburgh press release: Changes in the brain’s structure that could be the result of depression have been identified in a major scanning study. Alterations were found in parts of the brain known…
From the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) press release: It’s no secret that the risk of depression increases for women when their hormones are fluctuating. Especially vulnerable times include the menopause transition and onset of postmenopause.…
From the Princeton University press release: The absence of a father — due to incarceration, death, separation or divorce — has adverse physical and behavioral consequences for a growing child. But little is known about…
From the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne press release: Stress is a major risk factor for a range of psychopathologies. However, stress does not affect everyone equally: in the face of sustained adversity, some people develop…
From the Penn State press release: Men and women react differently to compounds associated with immune system response to bipolar disorder, according to an international team of medical researchers. The findings suggest that bipolar disorder…
From the Frontiers press release: When researchers in the UK exposed depressed adolescents to happy or sad words and imaged their brains, they found that depression has different effects on the brain activity of male…
From the Penn State press release: Women who experience a false-positive mammogram result are more likely to begin medication for anxiety or depression than women who received an immediate negative result, according to a study…
From the Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health press release: “Aging itself is not inevitably associated with a decline in mood and quality of life,” says Prof. Karl-Heinz Ladwig, summarizing the results.…
From the University of Maryland School of Medicine press release: Globally, depression affects more than 300 million people annually. Nearly 800,000 die from suicide every year — it is the second-leading cause of death among people…
From the University of Montreal press release: Going from an occasional user of marijuana to a weekly or daily user increases an adolescent’s risk of having recurrent psychotic-like experiences by 159%, according to a new Canadian…