Live Science spoke with the scientists behind an upcoming clinical trial testing an immune therapy for depression.

Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses. As many as 280 million people worldwide are affected by this disease, which is why researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have ...

Researchers have developed a deep learning model to detect mental health symptoms and risk factors on social media. Image: Adobe Stock/Deb Berger for Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Social media ...

Postpartum depression (PPD) affects up to 15 percent of individuals after childbirth. Early identification of patients at risk of PPD could improve proactive mental health support. Researchers ...

In a first, the U.S. FDA accepted an artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning-model into its Innovative Science and Technology Approaches for New Drugs (ISTAND) pilot program for drug development ...

Adding measures of anxiety and depression to the American Heart Association’s Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) model may have little additional effect on predicting the risk ...

An uncomfortable truth exists about depression: Many people, perhaps most, respond poorly to treatment. This disappointing pattern persists despite decades of evolving psychotropics—MAO inhibitors, ...