Mental health is no longer a hush-hush topic. More and more people are opening up about their mental health struggles, whether it's depression, anxiety, panic attacks, or obsessive thoughts. And as ...

Immediately following Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary, President Donald Trump instructed his administration to assess the “threat” posed to children by the prescription of ...

Antidepressant prescriptions have doubled in the UK over the decade from 2008-18, according to the latest data. Within this reality is contained another: namely, that the number of people in this ...

If you’ve been feeling down lately, you aren’t alone: Depression is on the rise in the U.S. As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on, about a third of Americans are showing signs of depression or anxiety ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have established a new framework for understanding how classic antidepressants work in treating major depressive disorder (MDD), ...

A recent study calling into question the long-held theory that depression results from a chemical imbalance in the brain is gaining traction on the far right, with some using it to argue that ...

Widely used antidepressants are said to cause patients to experience “emotional blunting”, according to a new study. The commonly prescribed drugs can also make people less responsive to positive and ...

Over the last few years, there has been an increasing number of commentators claiming that antidepressants don’t work, that pharmaceutical companies lied, and that these drugs are overprescribed ...

Most of the antidepressant drugs currently prescribed to children and adolescents for severe depression work no better than a placebo, scientists have said. Only one treatment, fluoxetine, appears to ...

For the past five years, and in my recent book Obsession: A History, I have been questioning the effectiveness of Prozac-like drugs known as SSRIs. I've pointed out that when the drugs first came out ...