New research helps explain the links among stress, depression, and cardiovascular disease. It also suggests possible interventions.

The way unexpectedly good outcomes affect memory may lead to a new understanding of depression.

Hospitalized children with depression and another illness stay longer, pay more, and have an increased risk of death, according to a new study.

Sleep and exercise may affect depression differently in men and women, researchers say.

Gifts to MIT and Harvard Medical School totaling $9 million will fund independent research on cannabinoid’s influence on brain health and behavior.

Indicators of despair are rising among Americans in their late 30s and early 40s, researchers say.

Grief really does have an impact on your health and immune system, a new review finds.

When companies move to pay-for-performance, more employees take medications for anxiety and depression.

A new study links kids' participation in team sports and larger hippocampal volumes, as well as less depression in boys ages 9 to 11.

African Americans with depression are more likely than non-black patients to get a diagnosis of schizophrenia, researchers say.