The American College of Physicians recently released guidelines for treating depression, and it hasn’t gone down well with psychiatrists.

Newsweek reports that the rate of suicides among young black men went up 83% over the eighties and early nineties.

Recent research shows that people are better at spotting fake smiles after they’ve been rejected. More proof that the worse you feel, the more realistic your world view.

New York magazine reports that urban loneliness might be a myth, according to researchers. It’s long been assumed that people in cities are lonelier than people living in more rural environments,  but this assumption of urban alienation may not hold under closer inspection.

Coronary heart disease and depression are a deadly combo, and a recent study suggests that this deadliness is tied to behavioral changes in those afflicted by the pair. Being depressed causes people to stop taking care of themselves, which increases their chance of dying.

In a study of 102 female and 50 male African Americans teenagers, researchers found that mothers who played mental games increased the presence of depressive symptoms in their daughters. The boys showed no changes in wellbeing.