For decades, treating major depression has involved a frustrating cycle of trial and error, with patients cycling through medications and therapies while clinicians rely on symptoms and intuition more ...

Tens of millions of people with depression aren't properly diagnosed. Stanford researchers show that brain imaging could ...

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a ...

Researchers have identified a brain mechanism that may determine why chronic pain leads to depression in some individuals but ...

A new study reveals how chronic pain triggers depression through structural changes in the brain's hippocampus.

Deep brain stimulation – implants in the brain that act as a kind of 'pacemaker' – has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an 'open ...