Dr. Harold Koenig answers the question: 'What Is Depression?' — -- Question: What is the difference between depression and manic depression (bipolar disorder)? Answer: Depression and manic ...

Depression is a serious mental health condition that affects millions of people every year. But in the Black community, it often goes unnoticed or untreated because of stigma, lack of access, cultural ...

Depression is a complex and deeply personal experience. While almost everyone has periods of sadness, low mood or grief, depression is different. Major depressive disorder is persistent, interferes ...

Dr. David Brendel answers the question: 'Substance Abuse And Depression?' — -- Question: What is the relationship between depression and substance abuse? Answer: There is a very close ...

Depression's roots are, from my own clinical observations, more commonly basically psychological than biochemical--though one clearly affects the other. Often at the very heart of depression is ...

The geriatric depression scale is a self-reported screening survey to help detect depression in older adults. There’s a short version with 15 questions and a long version with 30. The geriatric ...

Jayashri Kulkarni receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council as a Leadership Level 3 Investigator Grant, and has received clinical trials funding from pharmaceutical ...

As I look from my office window, I can see over the roofs of the campus buildings, the labs, the offices, and student accommodation, to the roads below that connect them. On the roofs sit small, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s well-known that depression takes a toll on physical and mental health as feelings of isolation, loneliness, despair and low ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Researchers still don’t understand what, exactly, causes depression. But what is clear is this: It doesn’t ...