The marketing of depression

When the family of a longtime patient invited me to her funeral, I found myself wrestling with a question I never addressed in medical school. 

New Alzheimer's blood tests are accurate, available, and increasingly advertised — but for healthy people, a positive result is rarely useful. 

Talking about depression can be difficult and very subjective. A personal experience is shared in this episode, with a goal of raising awareness about the different methods of therapy that we can follow to heal. Your questions, comments, feedbacks, and experiences are very welcom ...  Show more

Depression is complicated but some of the treatments can be simple. That doesn’t mean following through with these treatments is easy–battling depression is a tough job. But it does mean that a few lifestyle changes can sometimes make a big difference to someone who is living wit ...  Show more

Antidepressants and revised guidance from NICE reflecting that, for some people, they can be difficult drugs to come off; Margaret McCartney explains why this initiative is long over due. Chemotherapy backpacks - a novel way of giving cancer therapy that allows people to stay at ...  Show more

Arts therapies appear to ease a host of brain disorders from Parkinson's to PTSD. But these treatments that rely on music, poetry or visual arts haven't been backed by rigorous scientific testing. Now, artists and brain scientists have launched a program to change that. NPR's bra ...  Show more