Health Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety The first systematic review of the evidence on meditation suggests that 8 per cent of people experience a negative effect such as depression, anxiety, psychosis or thoughts of suicide NewsFree
Health Depression may reduce the amount of white matter in the brain Depression appears to cause changes to the structure of the brain, as well as the other way around. That may be due to behaviour changes that can shrink unused brain pathways NewsSubscriber-only