Held annually during Mental Illness Awareness Week in October, National Depression Screening Day (NDSD) is comprised of awareness events that include an optional screening component. National ...

Personalized medicine is the unique tailoring of medical treatment to a patient’s individual symptoms AND their genetic profiles. What was once thought of as science fiction is no longer a fantasy - ...

A special kind of genetic test that helps determine the best antidepressant for patients with moderate-to-severe depression could generate substantive health system savings and greatly improve patient ...

SYNLAB and ALCEDIAG recently launched the first blood test to assist in mental health diagnosis in France. The test is aimed at differentiating bipolar disorders from depression. The news may be ...

New research at the University of Illinois Chicago is testing whether digital tools can help predict which patients with depression will benefit from specific treatments and help deliver those ...

New postpartum depression research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medicine could lead to a blood test to identify women at risk and possibly even to a preventive ...

Biotech stock GH Research catapulted Monday after the FDA gave it the go-ahead to resume testing its depression drug.

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among children aged 10 to 14 in the U.S. That’s evidence of a systemic failure in identifying and addressing mental health concerns in young people.

Someday a pregnancy test could also alert women that they are at risk of suffering postpartum depression. The test would measure a specific hormone that peaks in a woman's body between the 23rd and ...

A new brief report published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that the instructions for the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), a ...

Like many first-time mothers, Lisette Lopez-Rose thought childbirth would usher in a time of joy. Instead, she had panic attacks as she imagined that something bad was going to happen to her baby, and ...