depression

Depression is a global health burden and continues to increase with each passing day. As per the WHO, globally, more than 264 million people of all ages suffer from depression. It is one of the leading causes of disability as measured by Years Lived with Disability (YLDs) and the fourth leading contributor to disea...

Characterized by debilitating episodes of depression and mood elevation (mania or hypomania), Bipolar depression is an under-recognized and unappreciated phase of bipolar disorder. Since most patients exhibit depression, Bipolar depression gets misdiagnosed with other mental disorders easily. Thus, it is associated...

50 million people globally have dementia, and out of all the dementia cases, Alzheimer’s Disease accounts for about 60–70% of cases, says the WHO. Alzheimer's Disease is a neurodegenerative disease, a common cause of dementia that affects behavior, memory, and thinking abilities of an individual. Mostly the symptom...

The concept of sleep as a passive movement of unconsciousness has long been ruled out. But this act of rejuvenation hasn't just been restricted to the phase of resting. Usually, sleepers undergo five stages of sleep consisting of both REM (Rapid Eye Movement) and N-REM (Non- Rapid Eye Movement), each lasting f...

In what could be regarded as a first of its kind, researchers from the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom have recently reported that they created two machine learning models that are able to precisely predict the severity of three common symptoms ...