DEPRESSION

Hope Chanda says that taking Xanax makes her a "better mom."

Two experts discussed if antidepressants are being overused.

Irish lawmakers have passed a controversial "drunk driving permit" to help fight depression in rural southern Ireland.

Creating a formula to designate a single day as the most depressing one of the year for everyone is silly pseudoscience, scientists say.

Michelle Williams said that in the past few months she has emerged from years of suffering from moderate depression.

Junior Seau's ex-wife told reporters she spoke with doctors who had studied the former NFLer's brain and found evidence of CTE, a disease found in other football players that's linked to dementia, memory loss and depression.

The Olympic champion skier talks with People Magazine about how depression has affected her life.

A new study in mice suggests that watching glowing screens until the wee hours of the morning can raise a person's risk for depression and learning disorders.

Gaspard Ulliel has signed on to star in a film about the life of Yves Saint Laurent.

The Caribbean has its eyes on Tropical Storm Sandy after the once-tropical depression strengthened Monday with winds topping at 40 m.p.h as Jamaica braces for the storm to transform into a hurricane.

Babies born from mothers taking antidepressants had an accelerated ability to attune to the sounds of their native language, while untreated depression had the opposite effect.

Researchers measured 36 people who had suffered a stroke within the last 3 years for signs of depression, and found that male subjects were more likely to feel depressed by their precarious health than the female participants.

Alanis Morissette, not long after giving birth to her son, Ever Imre in 2010, suffered from bouts of postpartum depression, according to People magazine.

The National Weather Service upgraded Tropical Depression Ernesto to a tropical storm Thursday as the front reached winds topping at 50 mph.

Researchers found that of 101 heart patients with signs of depression, those who exercised for 90 minutes per week and those who started taking Zoloft both improved significantly compared to participants assigned to drug-free placebo pills.

Mabel Pantaleon, the missing 31-year-old actress famous for her role on "Dexter," was found at John F. Kennedy airport on Thursday attempting to hop on a flight.

Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras likened his country's deep economic slump in the wake of the European debt crisis to the Great Depression of the 1930s in the U.S. while meeting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton in Athens.

More people dropped out of face-to-face talk therapy than telephone-based therapy in a new study.

South Korea is burdened with the highest suicide rate among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Researchers developed a blood test that may make screening for depression as easy as testing for diabetes.

A new study by the researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that breathing problems during sleep may raise the risk of depression.