Depression doesn’t have a uniform presentation, but teenage depression assessments can help differentiate between typical adolescent “growing pains” and serious mental health challenges. It’s ...

Held annually during Mental Illness Awareness Week in October, National Depression Screening Day (NDSD) is comprised of awareness events that include an optional screening component. National ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . I did not serve as a physician in the military. When entering medical school at the University of Minnesota in ...

Everyone gets blue, but when sad, lonely, hopeless or irritable feelings prevent your getting on with your life, it may be clinical depression. Nearly 20 million Americans suffer from depression each ...

Medical assistant Kimberly Mendoza gives the VitalSign6 depression screening test as part of a routine physical to patients at a public clinic in Dallas. She took the test herself and is now being ...

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among children aged 10 to 14 in the U.S. That’s evidence of a systemic failure in identifying and addressing mental health concerns in young people.

Slawa Rokicki ([email protected]), Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey. In New Jersey, universal screening for perinatal depression at the time of delivery has resulted in a 95 percent ...