This story was reviewed by Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD. Maybe you’re neck-deep in a two-week funk you just can’t seem to shake, or perhaps you’ve been struggling with severe depression for years. No ...

A new ketamine pill may help hard-to-treat depression with fewer side effects than other forms of the treatment, early research suggests. Technically, no form of ketamine has been approved by the US ...

Medically reviewed by Lindsay Cook, PharmD Key Takeaways SSRIs are often the first choice for treating depression and various anxiety disorders.Medications for anxiety and depression work by boosting ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an ex-medical/surgical nurse. I have a daughter-in-law who was treated for depression with magnetic therapy. My psychiatric exposure in the 1950s was with electroshock therapy and ...

Depression silently affects more than 21 million adults in the United States alone, yet many still struggle to recognize its symptoms or find effective treatments. While occasional sadness is part of ...

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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the medication zuranolone for the treatment of postpartum depression - making it the first FDA-approved oral pill in the United States specifically for ...

Live Science spoke with the scientists behind an upcoming clinical trial testing an immune therapy for depression.

SSRIs are part of a newer class of medications and tend to be better tolerated than the older TCAs or MAOIs. In addition to different types of depression, like major depressive disorder (MDD), SSRIs ...

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