Like heart disease or diabetes, depression can be highly debilitating, even fatal. But unlike heart disease or diabetes, it is poorly understood and heavily stigmatized. People with depression are ...

A prominent professor uses a disciplinary meeting to discuss his struggles with depression -- and encourages others in academe to talk about mental health issues.

Neuroscience might be making the running in understanding depression, but philosophy is still in the race.

Actor Anthony Hopkins once said, “My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And ...

The concept of depression as a mental disorder may be helpful for the more severe and intractable cases treated by psychiatrists like myself, but probably not for the majority of cases, which, for ...