Live Science spoke with the scientists behind an upcoming clinical trial testing an immune therapy for depression.

Researchers are testing whether drugs designed to quiet the immune system can lift severe depression that resists ...

In 2019 I wrote about research suggesting anti-inflammatory medications might help some people with major depression. At the time, the idea that depression could have roots in the immune system felt ...

Immune cells released from bone marrow in the skull in response to chronic stress and adversity could play a key role in symptoms of depression and anxiety, say researchers. Subscribe to our ...

Depression, schizophrenia and other mental health conditions affect 1 in 4 people in their lifetime, but the mechanisms underlying these conditions are poorly understood. New research led by ...

Anti-inflammatory therapies that are highly effective for inflammatory skin diseases might also be relevant to depression because of shared inflammatory pathways.

In the early phases of depression and psychosis, patients often show altered inflammatory markers in the blood and structural changes in the gray matter of the brain. This was demonstrated in the ...

Researchers found that the cells of young adults with depression overproduce energy while resting but struggle to respond to ...

Depression, schizophrenia and other mental health conditions affect 1 in 4 people in their lifetime, but mechanisms underlying these conditions are poorly understood. New research led by researchers ...