A psychedelic compound found in the Amazonian hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca quickly curbed clinical depression sufferers’ symptoms, according to research on how drugs used socially could treat mental ...

Patients with depressive symptoms and asthma had elevated levels of serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor in association ...

Researchers find DMT – used in shamanic rituals – in tandem with psychotherapy has significant effect ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a disturbance of mood that may have persistent and long-term consequences impacting patients’ overall level of functioning and quality of life. 1 Historically, ...

Johnson & Johnson’s oral add-on drug significantly improved depressive symptoms and sleep outcomes in a phase 3 trial for patients who previously did not benefit from antidepressants alone. The ...

The approval of medicines called second-generation antipsychotics has allowed major depressive disorder (MDD) and other conditions linked to it to be treated. A person with MDD is usually prescribed ...

Findings provide rationale for targeted strategy in psychiatry that may lead to new personalized treatments for major depressive disorder and other conditions ...

—Researchers recently examined the impact of depressive symptoms, as measured by the 21-item Beck Depression Inventory, on adherence to therapy using correlation, network analysis, and linear ...

A team of leading clinical research scientists from the Departments of Psychiatry and Dermatology at the Icahn School of ...