From mood trackers to guided cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and peer support, depression apps are crowding the digital marketplace. As more patients turn to this technology to ease their symptoms, ...

Diagnoses of depression, one of the most common mental disorders, increased by nearly 50% between 1990 and 2017, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO). Currently, depression ...

A study involving the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has found that the use of applications for depression can have a significant effect on treating the symptoms of this increasingly prevalent ...

The research lays out a clearer path for identifying depression apps that are safe, effective, and worth recommending. Study: Validation and selection of criteria for evaluating apps for managing ...

Smartphone apps designed for those with depression can significantly reduce users’ symptoms, according to the results of a recently published meta-analysis. While the findings are limited to those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rejoyn app for major depression is designed to improve brain functioning. People in treatment for major depression now have ...

Rising suicide rates and depression in U.S. teens and young adults have prompted researchers to ask a provocative question: Could the same devices that some people blame for contributing to tech-age ...

Global pharmaceutical company Pfizer has launched a new consumer-facing app aimed at helping to motivate adults with depression. The app, called Moodivator, will be available for free on the iOS app ...

A cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) app has been found to significantly prevent increases in depression in young people who are at high risk - and could be implemented as a cost-effective public ...

A study finds that social anxiety and depression lead to a greater use of dating apps and affect what people hope to gain from them. Share on Pinterest Image credit: d3sign/Getty Images Pew Research ...

A report released last year revealed that 1.85 million of us Brits are on Tinder, with the average user clicking onto the app at least 11 times each day. Clearly, we're a nation looking for love, but ...