Many psychiatric disorders are what doctors call “comorbid”—they co-occur with other disorders, whether other brain-based disorders or those affecting other parts of the body. Depression, for example…
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Researchers have published a highly detailed account of a mechanism through which ketamine, a rapid-acting antidepressant, alters plasticity, or the strength of connections between neurons, and in so…
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If you want to cure an illness, you try to understand its underlying cause or causes, as a precondition for modifying, reducing, or eliminating them. That, in highly simplified terms, is one of the…
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In a range of psychiatric conditions, notably including depression, eating disorders, and social anxiety disorder, many who suffer have persistent negative beliefs about themselves—for example, that…
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Researchers have reported that the brain circuitry underlying depression is the same or similar in a wide variety of patients and circumstances, and that it is similar to circuitry affected when…
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