Significant demographic differences were found when evaluating the use of depression services in people living with HIV and depression.

The Scope of the Problem Depression is often a chronic illness, with repeated episodes over a lifetime. After three or more episodes, a person’s risk of relapse can reach 90% without treatment.

Antidepressants balance brain chemicals called neurotransmitters to ease depression symptoms, with several classes available, including SSRIs, SNRIs, and MAOIs. Side effects vary among ...

Antidepressants in pregnancy, for instance, have been studied more than many other drugs prescribed in pregnancy—antibiotics, anti-nausea meds, antihistamines, pain relievers, etc. Researchers ...

Most commonly, symptoms of seasonal depression begin in the fall and winter and improve as spring rolls around, but that’s not always the case. Some people refer to seasonal depression in the ...

Q. You’ve written about problems with low sodium levels due to blood pressure pills or even very low-sodium diets. Don’t overlook the dangers of fluoxetine in older people.

The National Hurricane Center said Thursday morning, June 12 a tropical disturbance in the Pacific could soon strengthen into a tropical depression.

If an anticholinergic side effect of a tricyclic antidepressant is confusion and memory loss, it might be reasonable to assume that these symptoms will go away if you stop taking the drug.

What is tianeptine? Tianeptine is prescribed as an antidepressant in some European, Asian and Latin American countries, but it’s not approved for any medical use in the U.S.

It’s definitely a paradox. The way Lorde describes Virgin actually resonates with her birth chart. True to the Scorpio sun, she said the album was “100% written in blood.” ...

Johnson & Johnson’s seltorexant is one of two new therapies that the company reckons could become blockbuster treatments for depression, and data from a phase 3 trial keeps that hope alive.