A recent study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health examines whether and how the need to achieve certain goals increases the risk of depression in adolescents. Study: The association ...

Award-winning Braveminds Academy explains why depression in teen boys often appears as anger, withdrawal, and school ...

Depression is a mental health condition that affects 280 million people worldwide. It is twice as common in women than men and this pattern starts to develop during adolescence. Researchers have ...

In a study using a mouse model and human subjects, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Johns Hopkins Medicine show that stress from adolescent social isolation in mice elicits ...

Regardless of age, symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescent females showed little to no variation prior to their first menstruation, indicating an early screening window prior to puberty, ...

Depression among teenagers has been the focus of much attention over the past decade, and the growing rates of it—along with its associated heightened risk of suicide and substance abuse—have been ...

What is the experience of depression like for teenagers? A recent article in Frontiers of Psychology describes research into the “phenomenology” of depression in a group of 10 teenagers, which means ...

Almost three quarters of adolescents in Australia experience clinically significant depression or anxiety symptoms, with most being chronic, according to a new study. And preventive strategies outside ...

In South Africa, little research has been done on depression and anxiety among younger adolescents, those between the ages of 10 and 14. Existing studies have primarily targeted older adolescents and ...