Antidepressants can be an important tool for treating symptoms of depression, but they don't work right away. Most antidepressants don't provide instant relief of symptoms related to depression, ...

Mental health is no longer a hush-hush topic. More and more people are opening up about their mental health struggles, whether it's depression, anxiety, panic attacks, or obsessive thoughts. And as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the first directive since his nomination to secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thrust psychiatric ...

Even though depression is one of the most common conditions in the world, and we know many of the things that increase the chances of getting it (e.g., early life stress, being female, serious medical ...

This is the first installment in a series of articles about the science of various aspects of college life. Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, has increased among college ...

In the U.S., antidepressants are among the most frequently prescribed medications. From 2015 through 2018, more than 14% of Americans 12 and older said they took an antidepressant in the last month.

Roughly 1 in 10 Americans take antidepressants. The most common type is SSRIs, or selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, like Prozac, Lexapro, and Zoloft. But what happens when you stop taking them ...

At a meeting held by the Food and Drug Administration on July 21, 2025, a panel convened by the agency cast doubt on the safety of antidepressant medications called selective serotonin reuptake ...

In the first directive since his nomination to secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thrust psychiatric medications and their use among children into the national spotlight.