Mental Health

People with this common bowel disease 9 times more likely to have depression

Scientists from the University of Southern California found Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is linked to depression. They found patients diagnosed with IBD were nine times...

People with arthritis may have higher risk of dementia and depression

Scientists from Mayo Clinic found an increased risk of dementia and depression in rheumatoid arthritis. The research is published in presented at the 2022 EULAR...

This study shows the key to depression recovery

In a recent study from the University of Toronto, researchers found that feeling sensations, including ones connected to sadness, may be key to depression...

Why Ketamine can treat depression so fast

Ketamine is the speedster of antidepressants, working within hours compared to more common antidepressants that can take several weeks. But ketamine can only be given...

Why ketamine is a promising drug for depression

Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science found how ketamine works, paving the way toward the development of safe, effective treatments for depression The research...

Ketamine can boost cognitive function quickly, lower suicide risk

Scientists from Columbia University found that ketamine, a drug used to treat mood disorders and severe depression, improved the thinking and reasoning of those...

Common anxiety and sleep drugs may harm your cognitive functions

Benzodiazepines are effective and widely used drugs for treating states of anxiety and sleep disorders. Scientists from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich found while...

Long COVID linked to brain and mental illnesses

Scientists from UC San Francisco found biomarkers that may persist for many months in the blood of patients who had long COVID with neuropsychiatric...

Depression severity may predict stroke risk

Scientists from Kaiser Permanente found that the severity of depressive symptoms over time may help predict stroke risk. The research was published in Stroke and...

Ruminating on your ruminations can cause more depression

Scientists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that ruminating on our ruminations causes more depression. The research is published in BMC Psychiatry...