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Topic: depression

Pakistani actor Resham’s depression cure is ‘cry before God’, sparks off calls for ‘education’

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Resham's remark on a PTV Home show did not go down well with Pakistanis. Dawn wrote an editorial while viewers spoke of creating more awareness about clinical depression.

IRS Shubhrata Prakash is talking of depression in a world of stiff, steel-frame civil servants

Nootan Sharma -
Shubhrata Prakash is India’s first civil servant to speak about mental health matters in an open manner.

Brain stimulation therapy can put an end to drug-resistant depression

Patricia Junquera -
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a noninvasive, pain-free procedure that has minimal to no side effects, and often works.

Feeling winter blues? Small things you can do to tackle seasonal depression, uplift mood

Jolanta Burke -
Known as seasonal affective disorder (or Sad), it’s a type of depression that occurs only during specific seasons. But there's a simple way out.

How To Choose And Use The Best Kratom For Anxiety And Depression Relief

Siraj Ansari -
Making the best use of Kratom

Of mice, and men who stress them out: How scientists’ sex can affect lab mice’s reaction to drugs

Sandhya Ramesh -
Not only do mice prefer women to men, sex of the researcher affects their response to antidepressant ketamine, finds University of Maryland study published in Nature Neuroscience.

Houseplants don’t just look nice—they can also give your mental health a boost

Lauriane Suyin Chalmin-Pui -
Not having access to nature can affect our health adversely. It’s been linked to symptoms of depression and anxiety, as well as other conditions.

Chemical imbalance-depression link is gone. But that doesn’t mean antidepressants don’t work

Christopher Davey -
Chemical imbalance theory wasn't the premise of medicine for depression, it was the opposite. The quest for better treatment must continue.

No, ‘chemical imbalance’ does not cause depression. And antidepressants aren’t the ‘cure’

Joanna Moncrieff -
Serotonin theory of depression started to be promoted by the pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s. New research shows there's no evidence for it.

Now, ‘party drug’ ketamine will work as a quick antidepressant? US researchers tell us how

Sandhya Ramesh -
US study published in 'Nature' shows that ketamine targets a specific group of brain cells to 'restore lost neural connections within hours', reversing depression temporarily.
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With nuke lunacy, Asim Munir joins Pakistan’s Hall of Generals who swapped brains for bluster

Shekhar Gupta -
Munir indicates that he’s willing to go for broke, even if it risks taking his country “and half the world” down with him. It’s important to understand where he is coming from.

Rahul’s ‘vote chori’ attack on EC is a political dead-end. He still has a point

Rahul Gandhi echoes Pakistan on Op Sindoor, Trump on economy. He’s a distraction

Economy

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

Sampurna Panigrahi -
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Defence

‘Next war may come sooner than expected, will require whole-of-nation approach’—Army chief

Javaria Rana -
Gen Dwivedi framed Op Sindoor not just as retaliation to Pahalgam, but as demonstration of India’s capability to fight multi-domain conflicts with integration between services & agencies.

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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