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When a parent suffers from depression, children are more likely to need costly health services like emergency room visits, and less likely to get preventive healthcare, according to a new study.

Suicides in Britain have fallen to an all time low - but it has little to do with increasing happiness. Killing yourself is getting harder, and the result…

A regular run through the park may improve not only heart health but also mental health, a study suggests.

In a study that followed a group of middle-aged British men for…

Combining psychotherapy, delivered over the telephone, with medication seems to improve the outcome of depression treatment, research shows.

In the United States, people who suffer depression are typically treated with an…

A new study shows that partners of cancer survivors are susceptible to the same stresses as cancer survivors themselves over the long term, and in some cases, suffer more…

The number of children and adolescents who are prescribed newer antidepressants known as SSRIs has decreased substantially in the U.S. since the release of public health advisories linking these drugs with…

Findings from a small study suggest that combining an antidepressant with an anticonvulsive drug, a type of drug normally used to treat epilepsy, may be an effective treatment for…

People addicted to opioids, such as certain prescription painkillers and heroin, can be conveniently and effectively treated in their primary care doctor’s office rather than in a special clinic,…

Prescribing antidepressants on top of mood stabilizers for people with bipolar disorder provides no extra benefit, a U.S. study has found.

Also called manic depression, bipolar disorder…

Nurse care managers nearly double the likelihood of significant improvement among depressed patients, according to strong evidence in a new review of studies.

In this team approach,…

The UN called the move courageous. Mental health experts described it as a crucial intervention. Sir Richard Branson says it is time to think again. And on pro-marijuana blogs and chatrooms…

The antidepressant Lexapro does not appear to be an effective treatment for people suffering from kleptomania, according to the first controlled study to look at drug treatment for the disorder. But…

When people receive brief telephone-based psychotherapy soon after starting on antidepressant medication, strong positive effects may continue 18 months after their first session. So concludes a Group Health study in the…

Family caregivers of people with ALS, most often spouses, are likely to become depressed and feel burdened, but that’s not the case for the people they are…

Research suggests that a “substantial minority” of American adults are reluctant to let their children interact with children who suffer from depression or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

About one out…

The winds were wild that day. They whipped round the farmhouse and thrashed the lowland conifers this way and that, bending them to near breaking point. It was…

A team from Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard (CRULRG) has made significant progress toward finding a way to determine whether a…

Psychoanalytic therapies have been in professional use for over a century, but a new study from physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is the first to show that a…

A new study by researchers led by Kurt Kroenke, M.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. reports that nearly 20 percent of patients seen…

In a project involving more than 300 elderly people who had been discharged from hospital, 17% were found to have previously undiagnosed depression and of that figure, 7% died within…

The prevalence of depression in African Americans and Caribbean blacks is lower than in non-Hispanic whites. However, new study findings suggest that depression tends to be more severe, persistent, and…

Blood tests for panic disorder and other mental health conditions are potentially around the corner, based on results from a University of Iowa study.

The findings, which were…

Eleanor Longden, 25, started hearing voices when she was a teenager. But, contrary to the usual perception of inner voices, Longden says hers weren’t destructive: “It was rather…

Antidepressant treatment appears to help stroke survivors with the kind of complex mental abilities often referred to as “thinking outside the box,” according to a University of Iowa study.

The…

People with schizophrenia cannot hear false notes in music as well as healthy people do, and often cannot make out important tones that convey meaning in speech, U.S. researchers…