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Depression

Why medical science needs to return to viewing the heart as an emotional object

Sandeep Jauhar
· Sep 27, 2018 · 08:00 am
Stock market crashes and higher rates of suicide are linked, shows new research

Brendan John Lambe, The Conversation Tomasz Piotr Wisniewski, The Conversation
· Sep 15, 2018 · 11:30 pm
In America’s detention centres for immigrant children, tedium and despair reign

Jodi S Cohen, ProPublica Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica
· Sep 09, 2018 · 11:30 pm
The Section 377 judgment could be a victory for public health, if India’s health system steps up

Chapal Mehra
· Sep 07, 2018 · 02:30 pm
Meet the social workers who run Magsaysay winner Bharat Vatwani’s rescue centre for the mentally ill

Mrigank Warrier
· Aug 31, 2018 · 02:30 pm
Why Indians are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots to deal with mental disorders

Mahevash Shaikh
· Aug 01, 2018 · 02:30 pm
Video: Depressed? Eat fruit and stay clean, says India’s health ministry

Scroll Staff
· Jun 29, 2018 · 06:30 am
Indian health ministry’s ill-informed advice on depression draws protests from doctors

Priyanka Vora
· Jun 27, 2018 · 07:49 pm
Why is it so hard to predict suicide? A scientist explains

Joseph Franklin, The Conversation
· Jun 12, 2018 · 09:30 pm
Stress makes you better at processing bad news

Tali Sharot, Aeon
· May 22, 2018 · 09:30 pm
When buildings make people sick, do you treat patients’ bodies or their minds?

Shayla Love, Mosaic
· May 06, 2018 · 02:30 pm
The quest for better treatment is changing the way clinical trials are done

David Dobbs, Mosaic
· Apr 22, 2018 · 02:30 pm
This deeply personal and unconventional memoir about depression, loss and abuse reinvents the form

Apoorva Sripathi
· Feb 11, 2018 · 07:00 am
How the use of language can help early detection and treatment of depression

Mohammed Al-Mosaiwi, The Conversation
· Feb 08, 2018 · 09:30 pm
Late Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s eldest son commits suicide, reports state media

Scroll Staff
· Feb 02, 2018 · 08:02 am
When drugs don’t help treat severe depression, sleep deprivation might

Linda Geddes, Mosaic
· Jan 28, 2018 · 02:30 pm
Michael Phelps reveals he battled depression, contemplated suicide after 2012 Olympics

Scroll Staff
· Jan 20, 2018 · 10:51 am
How do you write about your own ‘madness and melancholia’ when you aren’t sure if it is behind you?

Divya Guha
· Jan 14, 2018 · 03:30 pm
Lab notes: Scientists field test a ‘virtual psychiatrist’ tool to help diagnose mental illness

Dinesh C Sharma
· Dec 27, 2017 · 05:30 am
’Tis not the season: The idea of higher suicide rates during holidays is a myth that refuses to die

Dan Romer, The Conversation
· Dec 26, 2017 · 11:30 pm