Pregnancy hormones triggered depression symptoms in women with a history of postpartum depression, but not in women who had never experienced depression. Hormones decreased activity in brain areas that respond to rewards, though these effects occurred in all women, whether they became depressed or not.

National Substance Use Prevention Month Globally, drug and alcohol use and misuse lead to enormous societal and economic burdens. The economic impact of substance misuse is estimated at over $440 billion dollars in the US alone. Last year in the US there were a record number of drug overdose deaths, including over 3,000 overdose deaths … Read more