O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Researchers compared a traditional Chinese medicine, Yueju Pill, with a standard antidepressant and found both reduced ...

Depression doesn’t mean you’re always feeling low. Sure, most times it’s hard to crawl out of bed or get motivated. Once in a while, however, you feel a spark of your old self—only to get sucked back ...

Neuroscientists have identified a brain network that is nearly two times larger in the brains of people with depression. By analyzing people's brains over an extended period rather than at a single ...

Swedish neurotech startup Flow Neuroscience has secured FDA approval for the first brain stimulation device for home use in ...

Symptoms of depression fluctuate over time, but many brain imaging studies of the condition only study one point in time. That’s made it hard to connect networks of brain activity to various symptoms ...

It's widely recognized that psychiatric conditions like depression and anxiety disorders are based in the brain. Scientists have even started to discover which brain areas are involved in different ...

Depression and anxiety are linked to a higher risk of heart attack, heart disease and stroke, and researchers now think they know why.

Biologically speaking, there is no organ as vital or complex as the brain. And yet, the brain still remains somewhat a of a mystery-there’s a lot that even experts don’t know. Another troubling fact ...

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 ...

Depression and anxiety may heighten cardiovascular disease risk through chronic stress pathways in the brain and body.

It's widely recognized that psychiatric conditions like depression and anxiety disorders are based in the brain. Scientists have even started to discover which brain areas are involved in different ...