If the Chinese were somehow being spared from depression, they were not from another disorder, called neurasthenia. In the 1980s and 1990s when those mental-health surveys were conducted, somewhere ...

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Adolescents in China who either spend more time on screen activities, such as watching TV or surfing the Web, or less time on non-screen activities, including physical activity, are at risk and ...

World Mental Health Day reminds us that, until a few years ago, the topic was still taboo in China, a country where psychology, banished during the Cultural Revolution, was long seen as a Western, ...

Depression makes deep inroads on biology to bring about the many symptoms of depression, from sleep disruption and an inability to experience pleasure to lack of motivation, feelings of guilt, and ...