Introduction -- Baby blues and the baby boom -- A feminist postpartum -- Psychiatric foundation -- Supermoms and support groups -- A different kind of women's health movement -- The problem of ...

Postpartum depression descended on Kristina Leos like a heavy fog that separated her from everyone she loved. She could see her newborn baby girl, her two older kids and her husband, but she felt like ...

A single, self-guided online session lasting roughly 10 minutes reduced depressive symptoms in American adults for up to four weeks, according to a large peer-reviewed trial that enrolled 7,505 ...

In the 1930s, two long-term studies of depression found that depressed individuals had higher mortality rates from heart disease, but this relationship was not truly appreciated until the 1980s. Since ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. The birth of a child comes with a swirl of positive emotions: awe, joy, relief. And yet, ...