Teen depression duration varies significantly, with untreated episodes lasting weeks to years, while professional treatment can reduce symptoms within 4-6 weeks and achieve meaningful recovery in 3-12 ...

UCSF's Cherry Leung, associate professor of community health systems with the UC San Francisco School of Nursing, researches ...

New research has found that depression and the risk of depression are linked to different inflammatory proteins in boys and girls. New research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & ...

Adolescent depression is a significant mental health issue that affects a considerable number of teenagers worldwide. Despite its prevalence, depression in teens is often misunderstood or overlooked, ...

A new review drafted by three Canadian psychiatrists aims to help primary care physicians diagnose and manage depression in adolescents. Depression is common among Canadian adolescents and often goes ...

(Reuters Health) - Adolescents between 12 and 18 years old in the U.S. should be screened for depression, according to guidelines reaffirmed by a government-backed panel of prevention experts. "From a ...

Adolescent major depressive disorder represents a personal and public health challenge. Conventional drug treatments don’t work very well, leading to only small and unimportant differences and ...

Background: Given the widespread reports involving the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in children, the present paper reviews and discusses published double-blind, ...

Depression affects about eight per cent of adolescents worldwide and is a known risk factor for premature cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adulthood. While the reasons for this risk are not well ...

In a study using a mouse model and human subjects, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Johns Hopkins Medicine show that stress from adolescent social isolation in mice elicits ...