Depression

In an era of evidence-based clinical care, a new study finds that research presented to psychiatrists during their annual meeting is overwhelmingly biased on the positive contributions of new medications .

The proposed ballot initiative, Physician Assisted Suicide, that Massachusetts citizens will be deciding on in the November elections has a major flaw.

Dear Dr. Donohue: I have been on Paxil for a number of years due to an unfortunate happening in my life.

When teens and young adults have depression or bipolar disorder, these challenges are mixed with the normal angst of just growing up, said Vincent Caimano, founder and president of the Conejo Valley Depression and Bipolar Support Group.

In my last post, I wrote about Ridge Diagnostics and their new blood test that can predict whether a patient qualifies for a DSM-IV diagnosis of depression .

Minnesota has the second-lowest ratio in the country of school counselors to students, leading some in the profession to contend troubled students are being neglected.

Cowichan Tribes Chief Harvey Alphonse was in Nanaimo on Saturday meeting with TorontoCentre MP Bob Rae, the interim leader of the federal Liberal Party.

In my last post, I wrote about Ridge Diagnostics and their new blood test that can predict whether a patient qualifies for a DSM-IV diagnosis of depression .

Those conclusions can be drawn from the county's Youth Assessment Survey, conducted every two years among eighth, 10th and 12th graders.

When thousands of psychiatrists attend their field's largest annual meeting each year, the presentations they hear about research into drug treatments report overwhelmingly on positive results.

Someday your phone or laptop might truly be smart: It could diagnose your depression based on your Internet surfing patterns.

Canada's transgender community, long plagued by discrimination and bureaucratic obstacles, is now celebrating a series of small but significant victories.

Depression and anxiety might seem like opposites, but they often go together. More than half of the people diagnosed with depression also have anxiety.

Mental health problems like depression and anxiety can affect anyone's life at any age.

A 5-year-old child with large, dark eyes, full lips and a button nose stares out from the front page of the Washington Post Sunday edition.

Depression and anxiety remain two of the most pervasive mental health issues in American culture today.

Why do we never get around to some items on our To Do list? We need to create a Why Do? list.

Every day, we scroll through our feeds on Facebook and Twitter. We get updated with the things our friends do.

Images of torturous scenes of patients given the treatments against their will, largely picked up from movies and television.

Anyone who grew up in a happy family, with loving parents, will probably find it as distant as a moon walk, and impossible to understand.A For some of us who grew up in dysfunctional families, Isabelle Huppert's character Danielle embodies the awful, and real, psychological conflict of a mother who feels no connection with her child.A For those ... (more)