The month of August is Happiness Happens month. It's a time to try to bring happiness to oneself and to others. Sometimes there's a blurring between happiness, depression and humor and the recent ...

The current study looked at the relationships between the four humor styles and depression. The researchers wanted to test whether people diagnosed with depression score high on the two negative ...

Founded in 1975, the American Humor Studies Association promotes scholarship on all aspects and periods of American humor through conferences, publications, awards, and the general support of a ...

An analysis of published studies suggests that humor therapy may lessen symptoms of depression and anxiety. For the analysis, which is published in Brain and Behavior, investigators identified 29 ...

There’s Nothing Funny About Depression, Except When There Totally Is Podcaster John Moe mines the sweet spot between laughter and sadness.

Depression isn’t funny, right? Or is it? In a new podcast premiering this week, humorist and MPR host John Moe looks at the links between depression and comedy through conversations with ...

The creator of the FXX comedy "You're the Worst" talks about why the show focused this year on a lead character's clinical depression.

The week before Gary Gulman was hospitalized for clinical depression in the spring of 2017, he had already been to the emergency room twice. Then his psychiatrist recommended in-patient care ...

In a new book of essays, “The Hilarious World of Depression,” the podcast host John Moe explains how a sense of humor has saved his life.