Till now, we believed psychological disturbances to be the main reason behind depression. At the same time, food items, at least some of them,… » »   

Low mood or mood swings is something that every individual experiences in his/her life, at some point of time or the other. Being cheerful… » »   

John Kenneth Galbraith once said that all academic disciplines have their disputes, much cherished by participants, and regularly combining differences in method with deep… » »   

Are you letting bad mood ruin your day?

For some people the feeling of gloominess or depression is due to neuro-chemical or… » »   

One of the most important distinctions in all of psychiatry is often also the most difficult to make- is the patient’s depression part of… » »   

Are women - but not men - hard-wired to be fat-phobes? Female brains react in a negative way when they view photos of overweight… » »   

Existing drugs used to treat depression and other mood disorders might be useful to limit brain damage following a stroke because they promote the… » »   

Lana, a 38 year-old publicist in Los Angeles, California, was diagnosed with genital herpes in 1997.

Since then, she has “kind of… » »   

When the Patient Voices series recently featured Tourette’s syndrome, an odd and little understood disorder that causes jerking movements and tics, dozens of readers… » »