Depression News

New Directions Behavioral Health and Tridiuum have merged to form Lucet, a behavioral health optimization company.

Depression and anxiety in young adults are associated with less ideal CV health, which may be improved with a better diet, physical activity and improved sleep, researchers reported.

Women with endometriosis faced higher odds of anxiety, depression and eating disorders, which researchers said are likely driven by genetic and phenotypic associations.

Clinical notes and public records were shown to improve a machine-learning model’s prediction of suicide after psychiatric hospitalization, researchers wrote in JAMA Psychiatry.

Among midlife and older women in China, some of their own and their spouse’s adverse childhood experiences — mediated to some extent by depression — were associated with poorer cognitive function, according to study data.

Feeling upset due to experiencing racism in the year prior to delivery was associated with greater odds of depression during pregnancy, according to findings published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing.

The FDA has granted tentative approval to Zydus Pharmaceuticals Inc. to market extended-release capsules of levomilnacipran, a treatment for major depressive disorder, the company announced in a press release.

Since the first death in the United States on Feb. 29, 2020, a total of 1,076,549 Americans have died as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Following daily political news can cause stress and negatively affect a person's mental health, researchers reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

The prevalence of all antipsychotic prescriptions prescribed to those aged 3 to 18 years increased by an average of 3.3% annually from 2000 to 2019, researchers reported in The Lancet Psychiatry.