Depression and anxiety are linked to a higher risk of heart attack, heart disease and stroke, and researchers now think they ...

What's in a word? Or, in this case, several words: disease, disorder, illness, condition. These are all used to define depression, along with many other mental health issues. Does it matter? Yes, says ...

The TO_AITION project, completed this month (December 2025), has been investigating the biological causes of inflammation ...

In her 1988 novel The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver wrote, "Sadness is more or less like a head cold — with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. But setting Kingsolver's apt analogy aside, ...

Patients with depression are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, and a new study suggests that stress may help explain ...

Depression and anxiety may heighten cardiovascular disease risk through chronic stress pathways in the brain and body.

Share on Pinterest Treating mental health may help improve heart disease outcomes. Image credit: MaaHoo/Stocksy. While mental health can impact physical health, sometimes, the treatment of conditions ...

New European research reveals a strong biological link between heart disease and depression, creating a dangerous cycle.

People with heart disease are more likely to suffer from depression, and the opposite is also true. Now, scientists believe they have identified a link between these two conditions: inflammation -- ...

European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2016) confirmed a clear association between depression symptom severity and the level of disease activity and disability in adolescent ...

As mentioned in my previous post, there are certain inherent problems with applying the medical or disease model to mental disorders in general--and to depression in particular. If you follow this ...

What is depression? Is it a disease? A mental disorder? Biochemical imbalance? A brain dysfunction? A psychological syndrome? An existential or spiritual crisis? Several of my fellow PT bloggers ...