For decades, treating major depression has involved a frustrating cycle of trial and error, with patients cycling through ...

Personalized medicine is the unique tailoring of medical treatment to a patient’s individual symptoms AND their genetic profiles. What was once thought of as science fiction is no longer a fantasy - ...

Held annually during Mental Illness Awareness Week in October, National Depression Screening Day (NDSD) is comprised of awareness events that include an optional screening component. National ...

SYNLAB and ALCEDIAG recently launched the first blood test to assist in mental health diagnosis in France. The test is aimed at differentiating bipolar disorders from depression. The news may be ...

Biotech stock GH Research catapulted Monday after the FDA gave it the go-ahead to resume testing its depression drug.

New research at the University of Illinois Chicago is testing whether digital tools can help predict which patients with depression will benefit from specific treatments and help deliver those ...

A new brief report published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that the instructions for the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), a ...

Having battled postpartum depression twice, biotech entrepreneur and neuroscientist Dr Clarissa Yates is developing a blood ...

Like many first-time mothers, Lisette Lopez-Rose thought childbirth would usher in a time of joy. Instead, she had panic attacks as she imagined that something bad was going to happen to her baby, and ...

Scientists are learning more about this leading complication of childbirth. Treatments are improving and doctors can test for biological markers that flag heightened risk. When you purchase through ...

Someday a pregnancy test could also alert women that they are at risk of suffering postpartum depression. The test would measure a specific hormone that peaks in a woman's body between the 23rd and ...