Tag: depression

No approved drug exists for cocaine addiction, and the NIH just bet on a psychedelic

The treatment comes paired with its own kind of therapy, and it targets a pattern the two illnesses have in common.

A walk may lift your mood as much as a prescription, a sweeping new review suggests

The effect was even larger for two groups of people, and one kind of movement led the pack.

If your legs won’t stop moving in late pregnancy, your depression risk may triple

The nightly urge to move your legs in pregnancy is often shrugged off, but researchers now say it may flag something bigger.

Being lonely could cost you nearly 6 years free from depression and anxiety

A huge new look at UK adults put numbers on what being alone can quietly do to the mind.

The ‘good’ fat that warms your body may be linked to lower anxiety and depression

The tissue that warms you from the inside may be doing more than that, and a common blood pressure pill seems to turn it up.

Your depression diagnosis may hide one of five very different brain conditions

The same diagnosis can rest on brain patterns that look nothing alike, which may explain why one pill helps a friend but not you.