Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are typical after deployment to a war zone, and may even represent a healthy reaction to stress, but can lead to problems with mental…

People with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety are the heaviest smokers in the country, but their doctors are afraid to ask them to quit. They assume that…

One in five patients with chronic kidney disease is depressed, even before beginning long-term dialysis therapy or developing end-stage renal disease, UT Southwestern Medical…

The joys of motherhood for many women can also lead other new moms to experience postpartum depression and even worse – ideas for committing suicide.

For…

Chronic alcohol consumption blunts the biological clock’s ability to synchronize daily activities to light, disrupts natural activity patterns and continues to affect the body’s clock (circadian…

The five most costly medical conditions for the United States didn’t change from 1996 to 2006, but the country did see one big shift: spending on treating mental illness almost…

The effects of the U.S. housing crisis may be stretching far beyond the economy, according to a study finding high rates of depression among people facing home foreclosure.

Researchers found…

Women who are depressed during pregnancy can take hope that antidepressants and/or “talk therapy” may be safe and appropriate treatment options, according to new professional guidelines made public this…

Clinically depressed individuals are less capable of finding pleasure in activities they previously enjoyed, a recent study has proven. Research featured in the August 26 issue…

The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a five-year, $4.8 million federal grant to develop new therapeutics to treat depression.

Depression, a serious medical illness involving the brain,…

Sleep patterns can help predict which adolescents might be at greatest risk for developing depression, a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center has found…

A new study suggests that most men who view child pornography do not go on to commit sex offenses - at least those men who have no history of such…

  * A new study looks at binge drinking’s impact on attention and visual working memory processes in young Spanish university students.
  * Results…

Feelings of depression could be one reason patients fail to follow their doctors’ orders on exercising and eventually become less physically active, a new research review finds.

Although past…

Major depression and coronary artery disease are only modestly related throughout an individual’s lifetime, but studying how the two interact over time and in twin pairs paints a…

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation of the joints and surrounding tissues. More than 1.3 million adults in the U.S. suffer from…

Young men and women who suffer from depression are much more likely than their non-depressed peers to have multiple sex partners in a given year, new research suggests.

And for…

A lack of sunlight can lead to reduced mental performance, not just mood disorders, among depressed people, a U.S. university study said Thursday.

“This new finding that weather may not only…

As health professionals learn more about depression, knowledge of the far-reaching prevalence or spread of the mental disorder is finally emerging.

Significant focus has been placed on mood disorders and depression in adults…

Psychopharmaceutical use has risen over recent years. This is fact, but what is not clear is the reason why. Researchers from four Madrid-based health centres have shown that family…

The wives of Mexican migrant workers may suffer poorer mental well-being - even if they feel freed of traditional gender roles in their husbands’ absence, a small study…

It’s a word that’s been around since the days of the Truman presidency. But a patient looking up “physiatry” would find nothing in the dictionary.

Until now.

Last week, Merriam-Webster Inc.…

Asperger syndrome is an uncommon condition, but probably more common than classic autism (the only published population study estimated prevalence at 36 per 10 000 children for Asperger syndrome and…

“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens’ pearls of wisdom may best describe 2009. These are times of turbulence: an increasing unemployment rate, an escalating…

“Feelings and emotions are essential parts of the womanly existence; they represent our evaluation of the events in our lives. In a very real sense, feelings and emotions are what human life is…