We’ve often heard that depression is a brain disorder, probably caused by low serotonin levels. Along with that, we’ve been ...

Study of 2,197 patients with resistant depression finds 95 percent improved once parasympathetic and sympathetic ...

Consider a house with the water main half shut. The faucets sputter. The toilet runs all night. The garden wilts. You could call a plumber for the faucet, a landscaper for the garden, a different ...

Worsened blood circulation from autonomic dysfunction may contribute to depressive symptoms, offering a new avenue for ...

A Nature Mental Health paper co-authored by Stanford’s Shebani Sethi reviews evidence linking metabolic dysfunction to serious psychiatric disorders.

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...

Early dysfunction of the glymphatic system, the network responsible for removing waste from the brain, could be a key vulnerability factor. This research has been published in Biological Psychiatry: ...

Mitochondria are central regulators of cellular metabolism, redox balance, and cell survival in the nervous system. In recent years, growing evidence has ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Dysfunction in a portion of the brain may explain some of the symptoms of fibromyalgia syndrome, researchers suggest in a paper published in the Journal of Rheumatology Dr.