Tuesday in “Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.” The article builds a case that the pills Lincoln took for depression gave him mercury poisoning until he stopped taking them a few months after his ...

Scientists have found 697 genetic variants – or small changes within a gene – linked to depression, of which almost 300 were previously unknown. A Queensland scientist described the project as ...

A massive trans-ancestry genome-wide association study (GWAS) looked at the genetic makeup of 688,808 individuals with depression and 4,364,225 people in the control group and identified ...