The geriatric depression scale is a screening tool that can help identify depression in older adults. Learn about the different versions, their uses, and how effective they are.

For example, a diagnosis of clinical depression requires either a persistent depressed mood or loss of interest and pleasure in activities, along with other cognitive and physical changes.

A large international study led by researchers at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska ...

Examples are venlafaxine (Effexor), desvenlafaxine (Pristiq), duloxetine (Cymbalta), and milnacipran (Savella). I like the dual mechanism of action because the depression pathway involves numerous ...

President Biden has issued support for John Fetterman after the Pennsylvania senator checked himself into a Washington, D.C., hospital to be treated for clinical depression this week.

An exhaustive, well-powered review may have conclusively debunked the “chemical imbalance” theory of depression.