Depression News

Individuals exposed to conversion practice to alter sexual orientation or gender identity have significantly higher risk for developing symptoms of multiple mental health conditions, study results published in Lancet Psychiatry showed.

LGBTQ+ people may be more likely to experience adverse brain health outcomes, including late-life depression and dementia, compared with cisgender straight people, according to study results published in Neurology.

Mental health counseling is more effective at mitigating the risk for preterm birth compared with antidepressant treatment among pregnant women with depression, researchers reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

According to published results, preoperative mental health disorders may be associated with increased opioid consumption, complications and costs for patients undergoing total shoulder arthroplasty.

Around one-third of former professional football players perceived themselves as having chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to results from a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Neurology.

Youth with chronic pain experience anxiety and depression symptoms more often and more intensely than their peers without chronic pain, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Prescriptions for benzodiazepines among privately insured postpartum women rose 15% during the pandemic, but diagnoses for postpartum anxiety and depression did not increase during the same period, researchers reported.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Among a cohort of patients within the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, no link was found between late-life depression and global amyloid deposition, according to a poster at the American Neurological Association.

With more than 13 million U.S. adults having seriously considered suicide last year, the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention plan released in April uses a comprehensive approach to prevent suicide, according to an HHS statement.

Intermittent and continuous energy restriction diets both improved cardiometabolic measures and reduced symptoms of depression and disordered eating among adolescents with obesity, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.