Depression affects millions of people worldwide, but much is still unknown about this illness and treatments don't always ...

The brains of adolescents with depression process information ... to sudden changes in its content. By using an MRI to track ...

"This is really the first step in trying to understand how does the brain change in people who have a normal course of pregnancy and then those who experience perinatal depression, and what can we ...

Everything the brain does—from storing memories to interpreting sights to regulating emotions—requires energy, all produced ...

The research constitutes some of the first evidence that the condition is associated with modifications in the brain before childbirth. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck covers maternal mental health and ...

Research has shown that a biological brain mechanism called the 'kynurenine pathway' is imbalanced in adolescents with depression, and this imbalance is more pronounced in teenage girls than boys.

In the brain, energy transformation is crucial for normal brain function ... such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), that have millimetre-scale resolution. To relate complex human brain dynamics ...

Scientists are using clips from the 2010 animated film Despicable Me - the first to feature Gru and the omnipresent Minions - in new research tracking the brain activity of depressed teens.