Potential good news for people with depressive personality traits: their negative outlook might not have to be permanent. This has been claimed by Swedish psychologist Rachel Maddux in new research from Lund University.

In her previous work with depressed patients, Rachel Maddux often felt frustrated that treatments were not helpful for all of those diagnosed with depression. The main focus of her thesis therefore asked the question: why is it that some people are helped but others are not?

Just as in humans, there are also the tough types, or those with a more delicate personality among mice, as Eneritz Gómez, a psychologist at the University of the Basque Country, has been able to confirm.

Scientists now have a better understanding of the way that stress impacts the brain. New research, published in the journal Neuron, reveals pioneering evidence for a mechanism of stress adaptation and may eventually lead to a better understanding of why prolonged and repeated exposure to stress can lead to anxiety disorders and depression. 

The risk of a major depressive episode more than double for those working 11 or more hours a day compared to those working seven to eight hours a day, according to a report published in the online journal PLoS ONE.

Raising a toddler is a daunting undertaking under any circumstances, but parents under long-term stress often find it particularly challenging to tap into the patience, responsiveness, and energy required for effective child rearing.

A new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found that employees with depression who receive treatment while still working are far more likely to be highly productive than those who do not. This is the first study of its kind to look into a possible correlation between treatment and productivity.

New research into the genetic basis of the depression has localized a gene, called RNF123, which may play a role in major depression.