A new study by American and British scientists has shown that the children who are often bullied by their peers or adults, are prone to cause physical harm to themselves. They are also at an increased risk of suicide. Such children often deliberately hurt themselves: cut hands, pull out hair, beat their head against the wall. They ... Full story

Diagnosing depression in the near future will be as easy as defining high cholesterol. The findings of the researchers from Northwestern School of Medicine in Chicago can detect depression with the help of a blood test. Full story

Working mothers have better health and are less prone to depression, as evidenced by the new study conducted in the University of North Carolina. Full story

French scientists conducted a research and made a surprising conclusion: obese teenage girls are less affected by depression than the ones who have a few extra pounds. Full story

It turns out that the relationship between the mother and her child remains strong even long after the birth and the end of lactation. If the mother suffers from depression, the child feels unwell too. Full story

According to the statistics, 1/5 of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, and 0.5% of pregnancies result in stillbirth. It is believed that women quickly overcome the psychological trauma, followed by the birth of a healthy baby. Full story

Scientists from the American Psychological Association published an article in the Science magazine in which they explored the impact of parental stress on children. The article quoted shocking findings that 88% of parents do not realize that their stress has negative effect on their children. Full story

The Health journal has published an article by Swedish doctors, where they argue that anxiety, restlessness, depression, and a poor mood in general among expectant mothers inevitably lead to the birth of a child with low body weight and a health weaker than babies born to optimistic mothers. Full story

It turns out that postpartum depression affects not only mothers but also newly-made fathers of newborns, says the journal Science. Full story

It appears that some fathers are bound to share post-natal depression with their wives, a new study reveals. Full story

Pregnancy is the time where you undergo mood swings. A lot of women experience this during their pregnancy at one time or the other. Mood swings generally occur due to a variety of reasons like the hormonal changes, stress, changes in the metabolism and fatigue. Full story

Australian researchers discovered that you can increase your baby's sleep duration by 30 per cent by letting your baby cry it out. Full story

Pregnancy may be accompanied by bouts of depression in many women, but treatment should be undertaken with much care, because antidepressants interfere with the proper development of the fetus, as revealed by a recent study. "The results of our study suggest an effect of antidepressant exposure on fetal brain development," lead researcher Lars Henning Pedersen warns in ... Full story

A recent research showed that certain antidepressants can adversely affect breastfeeding, delaying the production of milk for quite long periods, in some cases reaching to 72 hours. Full story

A study by American scientists on how the capacity for creativity and affective disorders are linked revealed the depression-prone parents are more likely to have a genius child compared to optimists, reports the Psychological Science. Full story

Although nowadays the issue of dangers that taking certain drugs poses for pregnant women is often brought up, it remains a pressing one since many expectant moms continue to take medicines without giving a thought to their possible pernicious effect on the fetus. Full story

Experts raise the alarm: children are turning into sex objects at preschool age. By age six, girls need branded clothes, at seven they want their hair styled, at eight they start dieting, and by eleven they engage in sexual contacts or sexually explicit conversations. Full story

If an expectant mom takes antidepressants during first three months of pregnancy, her baby may be born with heart defect, with the risk increasing by 80 per cent. If she takes more than one antidepressant, the risk quadruples. The so called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are usually prescribed to those suffering from depression. The most recognizable of those is Prozac. Full story

There exist many studies dealing with the use of antidepressants in pregnancy. Some of them lay stress on the dangers imposed on the unborn babies, for some antidepressants have been discovered to make women more vulnerable to the risk of preterm delivery or miscarriage, and baby having low birth weight. The baby may develop certain heart defects under the influence of antidepressants. Full story

Contrary to what some people think, moodiness, despondency and depression are not symptoms of the adult life with its hardships. A new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry shows that depression may assault us starting from the tender age of three. Furthermore, it may deepen and even become a chronic state of mind. Full story

Regular afternoon nap can help ease such problems in children as hyperactivity, anxiety and depression. Recent studies provided the evidence for that claim. The results of a study among 62 children aged 4-5 years old, presented at the annual Associated Professional Sleep Societies meeting in Seattle, pointed that a day regimen with the room for an afternoon nap is a good thing for a child’s psyche. Full story