Some 30% to 40% of patients do not respond to medications for depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but half of them could be helped by a noninvasive in-office procedure. To mark ...

A DNA test could help match patients with psychiatric medications, potentially reducing the long and frustrating trial-and-error process.

ST. PAUL, Minn., April 30 (UPI) --Fear of side effects prevents more than half of those diagnosed with treatable depression and anxiety from taking medications that could help them, according to a ...

A new study found that people with depression and anxiety who used GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy had a 42% lower risk ...

Key Points: Scientists have found several genes that influence the way in which people process and respond to psychiatric medications. Testing for these genes could help psychiatrists tailor ...

Testing mice for depression is challenging. “You can’t put a mouse on a psychiatrist’s couch and ask it how it’s feeling,” said Sarah Bailey, who heads the pharmacology group at the University of Bath ...

Alabama native Lisa Roberts, 65, had been navigating depression for most of her adult life. Roberts, who works in cybersecurity, notes that major life changes such as changing careers, raising a child ...

Recent research findings suggest that cognitive behavioral therapy and similar modalities are more effective than SSRIs in the treatment of depression. Patients who are treated with therapy experience ...