Two-time NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee, Olivier Berton, Ph.D., assistant professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a team of researchers have shown that the...
Next Generation Therapies
HDAC6
May 01, 2012
Helen Mayberg, M.D.
April 18, 2012
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is a newer treatment option for patients with severe depression.
Aaron T. Beck, M.D.
March 23, 2012
NARSAD distinguished Investigator Grantee, Aaron T. Beck, the 'Father of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)’ proved that it can be used to help treat the 'negative' symptoms of schizophrenia. CBT was invented by Beck in the 1960s as a method of talk therapy aimed at solving problems related to dysfunctional emotional behaviors and cognitions - primarily associated with...
TAGS: 25 Years of Breakthroughs, Brain Matters, Next Generation Therapies, Discoveries, Schizophrenia
Rene Hen, Ph.D.
March 21, 2012
In 2010, Scientific Council Member Rene Hen, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Columbia University, and a researcher at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, led a team of researchers to a groundbreaking discovery in understanding why antidepressants may fail to relieve symptoms of depression for up to 50 percent of...
Joan Prudic, M.D.
March 20, 2012
A promising pilot study of a program called Memory Training for ECT (Mem-ECT) designed to prevent or lessen the memory loss experienced by many people with depression who undergo electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was conducted by NARSAD Independent Investigator Grantee Joan Prudic, M.D., and colleagues at ...
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