Understanding what depression is – and what it is not – is often the first step toward relief.

Everyone feels down sometimes, but there’s a massive difference between having a rough patch and dealing with depression that goes way deeper than just “feeling sad for a while.” It’s hard to know ...

The diagnosis of depression is totally out of control. Once considered a major psychiatric illness that skirted suicide and wrecked careers and marriages, it has become as common as the common cold.

A well-designed 10-minute online exercise can spark small reductions in depression. That’s the key finding of my team’s paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour.