Exercise can be a powerful tool to improve symptoms of anxiety and depression. The amino acid tryptophan may be part of the ...

A significant percentage of women use a variety of CAM approaches during or following childbirth for a range of health and mental health problems, however, relatively few tell their physicians or ...

But “humans are one highly complex, highly integrated system,” says Felice Jacka, co-director of the Food and Mood Centre at ...

Depression is a complex and deeply personal experience. While almost everyone has periods of sadness, low mood or grief, depression is different. Major depressive disorder is persistent, interferes ...

Walking is not just a way to get from one place to another. New research suggests that walking can also improve your mood, adding to the heart-related and other benefits of this low impact form of ...

Long before my mood changes, my daily patterns do. Noticing these pattern shifts early allows me to recalibrate before depression can take hold.

For people antidepressants can’t help, ketamine changes the brain in ways we can now see In A Nutshell For the first time, researchers used a specialized brain scan to watch how ketamine alters a key ...

Depression is a significant concern in outpatient oncology care, yet clinicians face practical challenges in accurately and efficiently screening patients for it. This study investigated whether a ...

Still, human data is more nuanced. “While the evidence that the gut microbiome affects mood is relatively strong, evidence that changing the gut microbiome improves mood is not as strong,” Ziegelstein ...

Depressed mood in spouses of women with breast cancer deleteriously affects their own and their wife's functioning and their marital communication. However, no study has examined why some spouses get ...

Share on Pinterest Walking at least 5,000 steps per day could improve depression symptoms, according to new research. Oleh Slobodeniuk/Getty Images A new study found that walking 5,000 or more steps ...