Depression Resource

Depression

Depression publication cover - NIH 00-3561 This brochure gives descriptions of major depression, dysthymia, and bipolar disorder (manic depression). It lists symptoms, gives possible causes, tells how depression is diagnosed, and discusses available treatments. The brochure provides help and hope for the depressed person, family, and friends.
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NIH Publication No. 02-3561
Printed 2000, Reprinted September 2002.

FOR THE PUBLIC (Booklets, Fact Sheets, and Summaries)

Depression
Stories of depression: Does this sound like you?
An easy-to-read booklet.
The Invisible Disease: Depression, Science on Our Minds 2001
Depression Research at the National Institute of Mental Health
Bipolar Disorder
Children and Adolescents
Depression and Other Illnesses
Depression in the Workplace
Older Adults
Suicide
Women
Medications

INFORMACIÓN EN ESPAÑOL

CLINICAL TRIALS

Current Studies on Depression and Other Mood Disorders

FOR RESEARCHERS

Treatment of DepressionNewer Pharmacotherapies

Conference and Workshop Summaries

Challenges in Preventing Relapse in Major Depression (pdf format, 125 KB, 11 pages), May, 2001

Depression Can Differ in Men and Women, March, 2001 (NIH Record)

Maternal Depression Roundtable: Prevention and Treatment of Depression in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period, January, 2001

Genetics and Mental Disorders, the Report of the NIMH Genetics Workgroup, September 1997 - section on depression.

PRESS RELEASES

NIMH-Funded Researchers Show Better Treatment for Depression is Cost-Effective -- September, 2001
Depression, Bone Mass, and Osteoporosis -- July, 2001
Landmark Bipolar Disorder Study Seeks to Raise Standard of Care -- February, 2001
Estrogen Lifts Mood in Perimenopause -- August, 2000
"Real World" Trials to Target Psychosis, Refractory Depression -- December, 1999
Educating Older Americans and Health Professionals About the Risks of Depression -- August, 1999

OTHER RESOURCES

Depression Information from NLM's Medline Plus
Information for health professionals and consumers, and links to consumer health information from the NIH and outside organizations (also in Spanish and other languages), dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians. From this page, you may link to a searchable database of research publications and literature.

Updated: May 22, 2002