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

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 ...

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

The US Food and Drug Administration is allowing the use of Rejoyn, the first prescription digital treatment for major depressive disorder. Rejoyn, made by Otsuka Pharmaceutical and Click Therapeutics, ...

A comprehensive meta-analysis in depression and mortality, led by the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Clinical ...

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 ...

Light therapy involves spending 20-30 minutes a day in front of a light box, which can help regulate happiness hormones like ...

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 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 ...

A meta-analytic study looking into the safety and efficacy of LSD for treating mental health disorders found that its ...