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The Juventus striker has advocated for more conversations around mental health in football after revealing his struggles in the Premier League Alvaro Morata has admitted he “came close” to suffering from depression during his difficult season-and-a-half spell at Chelsea. Chelsea paid a then club-record £58 million ($79m) to sign Morata from Real Madrid in 2017, but […]

A powerful hallucinogenic drug dubbed the “spirit molecule” is being trialled as a potential treatment for depression. Study volunteers will be given dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in addition to psychotherapy as it is hoped this approach could become an alternative treatment for people who do not respond to conventional pills. Small Pharma, the company behind the research

Nation’s first center focused on depression and bipolar illnesses enters 20th year with transformational gift, enhanced capacity for scientific advances to improve knowledge and care  The University of Michigan Board of Regents today approved the renaming of the U-M Depression Center for Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg and their family, in recognition of their transformational $30

Bigg Boss 14 winner Rubina Dilaik has opened up on how she dealt with suicidal thoughts and battled depression, in a new interview. On the reality show, she had told Salman Khan that she went through all of that, around nine years ago. Rubina, along with husband Abhinav Shukla, participated in Bigg Boss 14 and

by: Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed. Posted: Mar 25, 2021 / 10:39 PM EST / Updated: Mar 25, 2021 / 11:04 PM EST INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Concerns about teens and poor mental health are mounting among parents as the coronavirus pandemic wages on. A recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights

“The brain, like the heart, is an electrical organ, and there is a growing acceptance in the field that the faulty brain networks that cause depression—just like epilepsy or Parkinson’s disease—could be shifted into a healthier state by targeted stimulation,” said corresponding study author Katherine Scangos, MD, PhD, in a press release. “Prior attempts to

More than 10 per cent of 22-year-olds felt they had missed out on needed mental health support because of the pandemic, according to a new study. It was also observed that children and young people reported increases in symptoms of low mood and the consumption of “junk food and sweets”. This latter was more common

Living with depression can mean a mix of good days and bad. On good days, your mood might lift until you feel lighter, clearer, and more like yourself. On bad days, the muffling fog might return, sending your mood spiraling down and leaving you feeling slow, drained, and numb. While depression symptoms can begin to

The University of Michigan has approved the renaming of its depression center in recognition of the Eisenberg family, which has gifted $30 million to fund research on the disease. The UM Depression Center will be known as the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg and Family Depression Center after the UM board of regents approved the name

Despite its proven efficacy for unipolar depression, intermittent theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation (iTBS) appears to be ineffective in alleviating symptoms of bipolar depression, new research suggests. Overall, investigators found that only 16% of participants responded to iTBS during the double-blind period of the trial, and the proportion of patients who responded to iTBS was