Depression

Investigators seek new antidepressants that will act faster or give fresh options to people not helped enough by existing agents

The first placebo-controlled trial of implanted electrodes is positive, but recovery is usually slow and procedures are being fine-tuned

Researchers continue to explore whether magnetic fields produced by magnetic resonance imaging devices and others improve mood in those who suffer from depressive disorders

Whether animals feel emotion, and are capable of suffering, is a question the answer to which has far-reaching implications. I recently read Victoria Braithwaite's `Do Fish Feel Pain?', a question that I didn't worry about much until reading this book, but now bothers me a lot more.

Recent findings suggest novel paths to treatment

More doctors are turning to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of their patient's brains, but fears of possible seizures may be limiting its growth as a therapeutic tool

Mothers are at higher risk for depression during and after pregnancy--and many continue to have depressive symptoms even as children grow up. But are fathers, whose bodies do not go through all of the same biological changes, also at risk for prenatal and postpartum depression?

Many mothers continue to have depressive symptoms well into their child's youth, which can have lasting impacts on their children's development, but new research shows short therapy sessions can improve outlook

Blocking the birth of new neurons helps hook rats on cocaine

A new study finds little difference between pill and placebo

Two scientists suggest that depression is not a malfunction, but a mental adaptation that brings certain cognitive advantages

A new book argues that the mental illness is being overdiagnosed