We don’t experience depression uniformly, and a new study finds that some symptoms may be more strongly linked with developing dementia later in life.

Despite decades of research, scientists struggle to understand the mental health implications of DNA. Researchers were able ...

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Co-authored by Eugene Rubin, M.D., Ph.D., and Charles Zorumski, M.D. Children as young as 3 years old can experience clinically serious depression, which can increase the risk for significant ...

The research constitutes some of the first evidence that the condition is associated with modifications in the brain before childbirth. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck covers maternal mental health and ...

At the turn of the 20th century, prominent physicians who were trying to understand where mental illness comes from seized on a new theory: autointoxication. Intestinal microbes, these doctors ...