When Jennifer Heisz was in college, she borrowed a friend's aged, rusty bicycle – and wound up redirecting her career. At the time, she was studying cognitive neuroscience, but, dissatisfied with the ...

On World Mental Health Day, we take a look at the often-overlooked connection between mental well-being and heart health.

Decades of research have established that movement has a positive effect on mental health. By Erik Vance When it comes to mental health, most treatments for conditions like depression or anxiety come ...

Depression and anxiety are silent struggles for millions of older adults worldwide, affecting 7% and 3.8% of those aged 60 and over, respectively. While medications and talking therapies are often the ...

Ayurveda the ancient science is always privileged in treating disorders with natural remedies, herbs and medicine. In the fast growing world where each and every person is hustling out in fulfilling ...

A new study out of Iran suggests that depression and anxiety might be transmissible through kissing. Photographee.eu – stock.adobe.com Depression and anxiety can trigger the release of the stress ...

Beyond the physical pain that individuals with chronic conditions experience, there is often an emotional component to the nociceptive (tissue) and neuropathic (nerve) damage that causes chronic pain.

In hospital the first time, a social worker came into my room. I was 16, in a children’s ward – too tall for all the beds and frankly freaked out. My life as I knew it was changing and my medical ...

The use of probiotics and prebiotics, alone or combined (synbiotics), was associated with a significantly greater decrease in symptoms of depression and anxiety in patients with depression compared to ...

Living alone and having both depression and anxiety was associated with a 558% increase in risk for suicide compared with living with others and without these conditions, a new population-based study ...

People with a history of childhood trauma tend to feel fewer positive emotions and more negative emotions when discussing sexual disagreements with their partners, according to new research published ...