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Judith Joseph has spent most of her life building an impressive résumé. She is a board-certified psychiatrist, chair of the Women in Medicine Initiative for Columbia University’s Vagelos College of ...

Depression in young people is often treated as an individual problem. But looking only at the child means that an important ...

We’ve often heard that depression is a brain disorder, probably caused by low serotonin levels. Along with that, we’ve been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ljubaphoto / Getty Images While it’s not an official medical diagnosis, high-functioning depression is more common than most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many of us have had struggles with depression at some point in our lives. It's a different experience for everyone, but common ...

The brains of people with recurrent depression have a significantly smaller hippocampus - the part of the brain most associated with forming new memories - than healthy individuals, a new global study ...

The relative increase in odds of an individual with diabetes developing severe symptoms of depression – and vice versa – is the same, regardless of where they live, a study of over-50s in 18 countries ...

Women are especially vulnerable to mood changes or depression during perimenopause. Here’s why and what you can do about it.

Depression can show up in ways that are easy to overlook and misinterpret. Here are four unexpected signs of depression that ...