Depression screening tools are self-report surveys used to help diagnose depression by evaluating the presence and severity of depressive symptoms. These tools are not 100% reliable but can help ...

Testing mice for depression is challenging. “You can’t put a mouse on a psychiatrist’s couch and ask it how it’s feeling,” said Sarah Bailey, who heads the pharmacology group at the University of Bath ...

Animal models of human disease have extremely mixed results, and all too often they do not work well and accomplish their goals of helping humans. 1 One such procedure, the forced swim test, is a ...

A one-minute EEG test could one day help diagnose depression from patients’ homes. The corresponding study was published in Scientific Reports. Depression is primarily diagnosed via interviews and ...

Like many first-time mothers, Lisette Lopez-Rose thought childbirth would usher in a time of joy. Instead, she had panic attacks as she imagined that something bad was going to happen to her baby, and ...