This is Depression Awareness Week, so it must be hoped that during this seven-day period more people will become more aware of a condition that a minority experience, and which most others grasp only remotely – confusing it with more familiar feelings, such as unhappiness or misery.

Research suggests persistent stress in young children can become toxic, causing brain changes that can interfere with learning and lead to disease in adulthood.

Representative Joe Kennedy III listens on Capitol Hill in Washington as debate continues over the GOP’s Obamacare replacement bill.

Sometimes a picture is all it takes to convey what words can’t.

Over 60 percent of chronically-homeless, and majority of inmates in state prisons and local jails in the U.S. have experienced mental health issues. To improve the health of our society, we must provide our people with knowledge and tools to strengthen their brain health as individuals.

In the wake of their own family tragedy, a Woodside mother and daughter work to help others impacted by mental illness.