The FDA has approved Flow Neuroscience's at-home brain stimulation device to treat depression, offering an alternative to ...

The FDA has approved a device that aims to treat depression by sending electric current into a part of the brain known to ...

Researchers reviewed numerous studies to understand how exercise reduces depression, from endorphins to stress hormones. Here ...

Patients can use the headset themselves in their homes to counteract moderate to severe depression, with what the FDA says are “modest” results.

Editor's Note: An excerpt of this story ran in WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Turns out, an orange a day might do ...

Meet Jon Nelson. He’s a dad, a husband, a coach and a professional who works in marketing. But underneath it all, he suffered – for years – from severe depression. His suffering was so great that he ...

An international collaboration led by Cornell researchers used a combination of psilocybin and the rabies virus to map ...

The research constitutes some of the first evidence that the condition is associated with modifications in the brain before childbirth. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck covers maternal mental health and ...

One of the key symptoms of major depressive disorder is anhedonia, or the inability to feel pleasure. Anhedonia is particularly difficult to treat with traditional pharmaco- or psychotherapies. One ...

Are brain supplements effective in preventing memory lapses and improving cognitive capacity (thinking, problem solving, etc.)?

This story is part of The Trip, a CPR News series on Colorado’s new psychedelic movement. Early research indicates that the psilocybin found in psychedelic mushrooms could be beneficial in treating ...