Recent medical research indicates that the heightened risk of heart disease observed in patients with depression or anxiety ...

At Stanford, a treatment that aims magnetic pulses at the brain is showing results for people with treatment-resistant depression. It’s called SAINT, and here’s how it works.

For decades, treating major depression has involved a frustrating cycle of trial and error, with patients cycling through ...

Walking, breathing, and moving your body can be the first step out of the emotional tunnel of depression and back into ...

When treatments such as medication and therapy aren’t able to relieve the symptoms of depression or another mental health condition, there are other options available. A psychiatrist might suggest ...

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-label ...

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 ...

Assessing the brain at the Barbican, London, UK. Image by Tim Sandle. Assessing the brain at the Barbican, London, UK. Image by Tim Sandle. The medical benefits of mild electrical stimulation of the ...

Scientists have found that when the stomach and brain are synced too strongly, it may signal worse mental health, linking anxiety, depression, and stress to an overactive gut-brain connection. The ...

Nitrous oxide, informally known as laughing gas, has shown rapid antidepressant effects in people with depression in a series ...

A Vancouver General Hospital neurosurgeon is working on new research that could help Parkinson’s patients suffering from ...