Psychiatry has a long history of treating mental illness with drugs that were developed for entirely different purposes. Take depression medications: The first antidepressant was initially designed ...

Psychiatrists think inflammation may be at the root of some people’s illness. How to treat it is an open question. By Dana G. Smith Psychiatry has a long history of treating mental illness with drugs ...

Would you zap your brain to treat depression? In December, the Food and Drug Administration cleared a device that uses mild electrical currents to stimulate the brain, marking a shift in how the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A novel self-report questionnaire may help identify patients who are at risk for difficult-to-treat depression before they meet the criteria for treatment-resistant depression (TRD).

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Difficult-to-treat depression and treatment-resistant depression are different. The questionnaire addresses ...

A surprising new approach to depression treatment is showing early promise — not by targeting brain chemicals, but by calming the immune system. In a small clinical trial, researchers found that an ...

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A small trial suggests IL-6 receptor blockade may help some patients with inflammation-linked depression, but the signal now needs confirmation in larger, longer studies. Brief Report: Interleukin 6 ...

Immunotherapy could be a promising new treatment option for patients with difficult-to-treat depression. This is a key finding from a University of Bristol-led pilot randomized controlled clinical ...

Self-reported questionnaire data predicted difficult-to-treat depression, even in patients who weren't considered treatment-resistant, observational data showed. The DTDQ score was also correlated ...

New research presented today at the American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting in San Francisco evaluated how accurately a self-reporting tool predicts difficult-to-treat depression, finding ...

An insightful new technology has been developed for treating depression. While millions of adults in the US use antidepressants like Prozac, the side effects — like weight gain or sexual dysfunction — ...