Tag: Depression

Recent claims about antidepressant effectiveness have been based on misleading statements and misunderstandings of the science.

Despite burnout being officially recognized as a syndrome, research suggests it overlaps considerably with current understandings of depression.

Researchers shed light on the limitations of mental health screening instruments for youth that are increasingly being used in schools and medical settings.

Teacher’s personal wellbeing plays a role in students’ mental health outcomes, suggests a new study.

Researchers detect disparity between white and African American patients diagnosed with schizophrenia when symptoms of a mood disorder are present.

A new study casts doubt on whether such biotypes for depression exist.

Could the statistical phenomenon of regression to the mean be responsible for the dramatic effects of placebo—as well as the supposed effectiveness of some psychiatric drugs?

They helped me function for a while, but the debilitating side effects of antidepressants held me prisoner. I'm still having a hard time understanding how this could have happened. It's been suggested to me by a therapist that what I'm going through now is another kind of PTSD: the ongoing trauma of realizing what antidepressants did to me for 30 years.

Depression, serious psychological distress, and suicide attempts have risen substantially since the early 2000s among young adults – what’s changed?

The candidate-gene approach to depression goes unsupported and is likely based on bad science, new research finds.

The latest issue of the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences features several prominent researchers arguing that mental health concerns are not “brain disorders.”

A new article in Lancet Psychiatry finds that slower tapering of SSRIs is better for preventing antidepressant withdrawal effects.

The first ever population-level study of the brain-gut connection in humans finds evidence for a link between gut bacteria and mental health.

Researchers evaluate the impact of a school-based prevention program on anxious and depressive symptoms.

The researchers found that although antidepressants had a slight short-term effect on reducing the likelihood of depression diagnosis, there was no long-term improvement, nor any improvement in motor functioning.

“Converging lines of evidence now suggest that depression—a common comorbidity in the setting of chronic pain—may in some patients represent an unrecognized yet potentially reversible harm of opioid therapy.”

Researchers explore the effects of augmented treatment at various points in interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescents diagnosed with depression, highlighting previously unidentified critical decision points (i.e., relatively early in the treatment sequence).

An international group of researchers, including several with financial ties to manufacturers of antidepressants, explore possible explanations for why long-term users of antidepressants become chronically depressed.

A large and rigorous meta-analysis fails to find support for the gene-environment interaction theory of depression.

Prominent researchers conduct a review of antidepressant withdrawal incidence, duration, and severity. Results lead to call for new clinical guidelines.

An international study of college students reveals ubiquitous social and emotional challenges faced by young adults.

Findings point to the role of withdrawal symptoms and prescriber practices in long-term antidepressant use.

A new study finds that more than a third of Americans are taking prescription drugs that can cause depressive symptoms as a side-effect.

A new article in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine addresses common misinterpretations of the efficacy research on antidepressants.

China Mills raises concerns that global mental health movements obscure social determinants of health and naturalize Western mental health concepts.