Two studies explore some of the developmental roots of depression in childhood and adolescence. In the first study, published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, researchers focused on ...

Ruminating about being lonely, as opposed to being lonely, is linked to depression, found a new study. The findings were published in Nature Mental Health and have implications for treating depression ...

Day four of the Matthew Schleier trial continued Friday with testimony from a neuropsychology expert who walked through Schleier’s mental health history and how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. For many years, psychological research regarding the depressed ...

Change can be difficult to deal with, and the bigger the change, the more difficult the struggle to adapt to that change can be. When we look back on what happened in the past, we often engage in what ...

Loneliness is more likely to cause depression if one keeps ruminating on how lonely they are. This is the essence of a study by The University of Hong Kong (HKU) that has therapeutic implications for ...

BOSTON - Teenagers are experiencing higher rates of depression than ever before, but a simple smartphone app could help treat a common symptom. 2020 was an especially tough year for 16-year-old Avary ...

We don’t think of emotional states as passing from one person to another, but a new study suggests some depressive thoughts can go viral. Researchers studying a group of college students found that ...

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." — Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2. These lines from Shakespeare summarize a key idea in psychological research into depression: The way that ...