Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a ...

Depression Awareness Month (October) began in the 1990s to increase public recognition of one of the most common mental health disorders. Nearly four decades have passed, and we still have a lot to ...

Researchers compared a traditional Chinese medicine, Yueju Pill, with a standard antidepressant and found both reduced depression symptoms. However, only Yueju Pill increased a brain-supporting ...

Symptoms of depression fluctuate over time, but many brain imaging studies of the condition only study one point in time. That’s made it hard to connect networks of brain activity to various symptoms ...

Animal models of human disease have extremely mixed results, and all too often they do not work well and accomplish their goals of helping humans. 1 One such procedure, the forced swim test, is a ...

Researchers have identified a brain mechanism that may determine why chronic pain leads to depression in some individuals but ...

Scientists seeded this petri plate with KLE1738 and bacteria from human stool. KLE1738 is dependent upon gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), an inhibitory neurotransmitter found in mammalian central ...