All women are at risk for depression during pregnancy and the postpartum period, and there is growing evidence to suggest that poor sleep during pregnancy and the postpartum period may be a risk factor for the development of perinatal depression. Undoubtedly the interplay between sleep and depressive symptoms is quite complex. Does sleep disruption cause… Read More »
By Jessica Hamzelou Changes in the brain appear to be caused by depression, as well as the other way aroundROGER HARRIS / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Your brain looks different if you have depression. But many of the differences seem to be caused by depression, rather than precede it. When neuroscientists compare the brains of people… Read More »
A meta-analysis of 24 studies, including 99,614 women, demonstrated higher levels of depression among women with endometriosis compared to unaffected controls. When researchers restricted the analysis to healthy controls, the association between endometriosis and depression was even stronger. Pain seemed to be the primary driver of the association between endometriosis and depression; in fact, rates… Read More »
Since childhood, Rachael Petersen had lived with an unexplainable sense of grief that no drug or talk therapy could entirely ease. So in 2017 she volunteered for a small clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University that was testing psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, for chronic depression. “I was so depressed,” Petersen, 29, said… Read More »
Indian actress Deepika Padukone is the most recent in a long line of celebrities who have admitted to having depression – and we love them for it It feels like depression is everywhere we turn these days. Like it’s almost baked into our culture. It’s in our music, in our films, in our news and especially online.… Read More »