JUN 3, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Circadian rhythms in major depressive disorder: mechanistic insights and therapeutic frontiers.
Annals of Medicine
This is a narrative review synthesizing mechanistic and clinical evidence on circadian rhythm disruption in MDD, offering conceptual synthesis and therapeutic direction without conducting systematic appraisal or reporting original trial data.
Reported
Global MDD prevalenceover 264 million people
Surge in MDD casesnearly 50% over the past 30 years