When they work, antidepressant medications may take weeks or months to alleviate symptoms of depression. Progress in developing new and more effective antidepressant treatments has been limited, ...

Depression affects how the brain communicates with itself. Our brains rely on chemical messengers called neurotransmitters to regulate mood, motivation, pleasure, focus, and social behavior. The most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the first directive since his nomination to secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thrust psychiatric ...

Immediately following Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary, President Donald Trump instructed his administration to assess the “threat” posed to children by the prescription of ...

In a discovery that could guide the development of next-generation antidepressants and antipsychotic medications, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed new insights ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Research shows that the risks of untreated depression in pregnancy is much larger than the risks posed by SSRIs.

Depression affects how the brain communicates with itself. Our brains rely on chemical messengers called neurotransmitters to regulate mood, motivation, pleasure, focus, and social behavior. The most ...

(THE CONVERSATION) At a meeting held by the Food and Drug Administration on July 21, 2025, a panel convened by the agency cast doubt on the safety of antidepressant medications called selective ...

In the 1980s, people generally thought of depression as a meaningful response to a crisis. A job loss. A divorce. Struggling to fit in at school. The angst of realizing life didn’t turn out as you’d ...