Study suggests that loss of depression treatment response is likely due to loss of placebo response.

A variation in a gene appears to make people with depression more likely to respond to the medication citalopram than are people without the variation.

A variation in a gene called GRIK4 appears to make people with depression more likely to respond to the medication citalopram.

Two million of Georgia country's thirty-five million seniors, age sixty-five and above, suffer from major depression.

When girls co-ruminate, they are spending such a high percentage of their time dwelling on problems and concerns that it probably makes them feel sad and more hopeless about the problems because those problems are in the forefront of their minds. Those are symptoms of depression.

In a study of more than 100,000 patients who received depression treatment, suicide attempts declined during the first month of treatment - whether that treatment for depression consisted of medication, psychotherapy, or both.

In a world first, the Australian Centre for Addiction Research (ACAR) at the University of Sydney is developing an innovative approach to effectively assist people to manage their depression, anxiety and alcohol consumption by correspondence.

Approximately 9 percent of youths aged 12 to 17, and 7.6 percent of adults aged 18 or older, experienced at least one major depressive episode in the past year.

Marriage provides greater psychological benefits to depressed people compared to people who are not depressed before they walk down the aisle.

Older patients with major depression whose primary care physicians team with depression care managers are 45% less likely to die within a 5-year time period than older adults with major depression who receive their care in primary care practices where there are no depression care managers.

A new program to raise the awareness of depression in older people has been launched in Hobart today.

2m to increase access to therapy for people suffering from anxiety and depression.

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance said the risk of suicide for people within that age group may increase, responding to the Food and Drug Administration's plan to extend a black box warning on the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in youth between the ages of 18-24.

Most women with recurrent depression may be able to prevent subsequent depressive episodes with monthly maintenance interpersonal psychotherapy.

University of Michigan Health System study on depression and retired football players is based on extensive survey of retired NFL players.