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Margo M. Loflin teaches sophomores in Oklahoma, a state that was once part of the Dust Bowl of the Great Depression era. But most school years, her high school students don’t find the struggles of ...

In this video, Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, discusses how psychiatrists approach treating perinatal ...

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There was plenty to be afraid of in 1933, our chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, explains. Roosevelt said there was “nothing to fear but fear itself.” By Peter Baker For decades, the Hotel ...

A massive genome-wide association study (GWAS) of genetic and health records of 1.2 million people from four separate data banks has identified 178 gene variants linked to major depression, a disorder ...

Dear Amy: I am an adult female in my 50s who has lived with ongoing, treatment-resistant major depression for most of my adult life. I have, for the most part, accepted that it will probably always be ...

In this video, Olusola Ajilore, MD, PhD, an associate professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Illinois-Chicago, discusses: The role smart phone apps play in treating depression; ...