3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (854+ words) Depression is often assessed using severity scoring – the standardized scale that tells a clinician how bad someone’s depression is. This drives decisions in psychiatric research, such as who gets which treatment, who qualifies for a trial, and which patients will…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (510+ words) A study reveals that anxiety may leave a chemical imprint on the brain linked to choline nutrients found in everyday foods....

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (827+ words) A new study has found that faster aging in one type of immune cell was linked to the hopelessness and loss of pleasure that can mark depression. The finding points toward a possible blood marker for depression, which doctors still…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (748+ words) A new study has found that a simple web tool helped patients stay on antidepressants longer than standard prescribing. The result gives doctors a practical way to reduce early drop-offs and help patients remain on treatment long enough to feel…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (766+ words) Researchers have found that lifelong physical activity can reverse how childhood trauma shapes communication between key brain regions. That finding pushes back against the familiar idea of irreversible damage and points toward resilience that can still be shaped later. In…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago   (787+ words) Some children seem full of energy all the time. Others stay quiet and find social situations confusing. Parents often hear about ADHD or autism and try to understand what those terms really mean. At first, it may seem simple – two…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (681+ words) Cannabis legalization was meant to regulate a product many Canadians were already using. Since 2018, it has become a normalized part of daily life – sold in polished storefronts, marketed openly, and available in increasingly potent forms. But over the same period,…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (811+ words) Cannabis has become more visible, more accepted, and far more potent than it was a generation ago. For many teenagers, it can feel normal – even routine. But a sweeping new study from the Public Health Institute, which followed nearly half…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (908+ words) Cannabis is everywhere now – from casual use to medical treatment. Yet one question stays unsolved: why does it pull some people deeper than others? A team at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, in partnership with 23andMe, tried…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (967+ words) We ask a simple question all the time: what makes us sleep. A new set of mouse experiments points to something small and surprising – a bacterial cell wall material called peptidoglycan that shows up in the brain and rises and…...