One of the characteristics of depression is a tendency to perceive sensory stimuli and everyday situations in an excessively negative way. But the mechanisms underpinning this 'negativity bias,' which ...

Worldwide, more than 330 million people have depression, with major depressive disorder representing one of the most common psychiatric disorders in clinics. Up to 30 percent of these patients don’t ...

Study of 2,197 patients with resistant depression finds 95 percent improved once parasympathetic and sympathetic imbalances were identified and corrected What we found, again and again, was that these ...

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 ...

Heart rate variability during sleep can predict stroke, depression or cognitive dysfunction years in advance, according to new research presented at the European Academy of Neurology Congress. The ...

A peer-reviewed study in Brain Medicine reveals that parasympathetic and sympathetic imbalances, long overlooked in psychiatric practice, may account for depressive symptoms in patients who never ...