A new study released by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Heath (CAMH) provides a thorough explanation of how the "chemical imbalance" occurs in major depression, a disease that impacts ...

Diagnosing depression is a tricky business. There’s no blood test, no scan, no biopsy to provide hard evidence of something gone awry. Instead, the full weight is on the skill of a trained clinician ...

In a first, the U.S. FDA accepted an artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning-model into its Innovative Science and Technology Approaches for New Drugs (ISTAND) pilot program for drug development ...

The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) is a widely used assessment tool that helps mental health professionals determine the severity of a person’s depression. The HAM-D assesses various ...

In a recent study published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, a group of researchers developed an innovative depression detection model that leverages audiovisual features from YouTube ...

Adding measures of anxiety and depression to the American Heart Association’s Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) model may have little additional effect on predicting the risk ...

An uncomfortable truth exists about depression: Many people, perhaps most, respond poorly to treatment. This disappointing pattern persists despite decades of evolving psychotropics—MAO inhibitors, ...

When a stressful event triggers a period of depression, it’s called situational depression. It’s common and you may have experienced it at some point in your life. Situational depression is different ...

While these types of depression are similar, they may have different causes and require different treatments. Depression is one of the most common mental health conditions, affecting tens of millions ...