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Traumatic brain injuries can be caused by vehicle accidents or blunt traumas, and they are a “signature injury” among soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Postpartum depression is an issue usually associated with new mothers, but a new study has found that a significant number of men also suffer a form of this condition.

A new report has found that people who have such mental health conditions as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder are three times more likely to be sent to jail than they are to be hospitalized and receive treatment.

Officials with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say they will investigate a gene test set to go on sale at pharmacy chain Walgreen’s that is designed to help people assess their risk for inherited diseases.

Results from a new study published in the journal Behavior Therapy suggest that telephone therapy is just as effective at treating clinical depression as face-to-face therapy.

German researchers say persistent depression after a heart attack may be due to changes in the anterior cingulate cortex in the brain.

According to a new study, children who remain with their parents after child protective services enter their lives have more potentially damaging levels of the stress hormone cortisol than kids who are placed in foster care instead.

Though this finding was not surprising, researchers say, one unexpected discovery was that verbal abuse alone was more damaging to women’s mental health than physical abuse alone.

Women who take the antidepressant Wellbutrin (bupropion) while they are pregnant have an increased risk of having a baby with the heart problem known as left outflow tract defect, a new study suggests.

In the new issue of the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, two experts say that a new classification of depressive subtypes is needed because a simple diagnosis of depression is not adequate to guide treatment.