Light therapy is linked to reduced symptoms of depression and improved sleep quality in patients with neuropsychiatric ...

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 ...

Researchers say a single intravenous ketamine infusion can rapidly relieve severe depression and suicidal thoughts when ...

Nearly one in eight people in the world lives with a mental disorder, and one person dies by suicide every 43 seconds.

Mental health disorders are now the leading cause of disability worldwide, according to a major new study. Researchers found nearly 1.2 billion people were living with a mental health disorder in 2023 ...

Mental health professionals use the DSM to standardize the diagnosis and treatment processes for mental health conditions, including types of depression. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 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 ...

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered the first direct evidence that deep brain ...

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 ...

The word depressive comes from depress, stemming from the Latin depressare, meaning to “press down.” For example, we can press down on, or depress, a lever. Whenever you press a key or drive and step ...

News and commentary from the psychiatry world ...