According to data presented at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, the antidepressant doxepin could be useful as a sleep aid in patients with transient insomnia. In the ... Read More

Currently existing antidepressants often take weeks to work, which may seem like an eternity when you are depressed. In contrast, the experimental drug ketamine can relieve depression in a ... Read More

Hopelessness tends to be worse in double depression, a new study says. The term double depression refers to dysthymia, a mild to moderate form of depression, which morphs into full-blown major ... Read More

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced yesterday that the FDA has accepted for filing and granted a Priority Review for the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) of ... Read More

A Saint Louis University School of Public Health researcher believes there may a genetic link between smoking and depression. Dr. Qiang John Fu and his team analyzed 3,360 pairs of middle-aged, ... Read More

Young girls love to get together to chat with friends about what's going on their lives, which can be a good thing in many ways. It helps to have ... Read More

U.S. researchers report that they have located the areas of the brain responsible for suppressing unpleasant memories, which could have implications for the treatment of depression, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder and ... Read More

About one out of seven of patients who are diagnosed with unipolar depression have experienced manic symptoms within the last year and are likely to actually have bipolar disorder, according ... Read More

Up until now, understanding the exact mechanism of depression causation has been confusing. Scientists have identified many different possible causes and the treatments for depression have several different modes ... Read More

According to a new study, chronic insomnia could be a sign of a larger problem, like depression or anxiety. In surveys of more than 25,000 adults, Dr. Dag Neckelmann of Haukeland ... Read More

Two U.S. studies suggest that antidepressants in the class called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may cause bone loss in older men and women. SSRIs--which include the drugs Prozac, ... Read More

British researchers at the University of York and Hull York Medical School have confirmed a link between low levels of folate and depression. In a review published in the July edition ... Read More

A new study suggests that overall risk of birth defects from SSRI use during the first trimester of pregnancy is small, although individual SSRIs may slightly increase risk of particular ... Read More