Depression

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A Pacemaker for Depression and More

Key Figures

350 million

Globally, an estimated 350 million people of all ages suffer from depression.*

* Source: World Health Organization (WHO)

15.7 million adults

In 2014, around 15.7 million adults age 18 or older in the U.S. had experienced at least one major depressive episode in the last year (6.7% of adults in the U.S.).*

* Source: National Institute of Mental Health

2 out of 100

As many as 2 out of 100 young children and 8 out of 100 teens may have serious depression.*

* Source: Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA)

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Yvette I. Sheline, M.D.

McLure Professor Of Psychiatry And Behavioral Research

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University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of MedicineUU

1998 Young Investigator Grant

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Huda Akil, Ph.D.

Gardner Quarton Distinguished University Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry

Co-Director, Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute

University of Michigan

Scientific Council Member (Joined 2002)

2007 Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience

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In your work with the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Research Consortium, have you uncovered any new genes that you think might be related to mental illnesses besides major depression?

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Research Gives People Hope: Multiple family illnesses inspire a couple's life-long commitment to the mental health cause

From The Quarterly, Winter 2011 No one knows better than the Garatt family how far research in mental illness has come – and how far it still has to go. Thirty-three years ago, when Sean Garatt was diagnosed with schizophrenia, his mother, Marcia, was told that she was the cause. The “bad mothering...

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A Remarkable Journey

Cindy Warren was diagnosed with depression in 1999 after she attempted suicide. She had seen a therapist off-and-on before then, but her official diagnosis began a journey of failed treatments that seemed only to make her feel worse. Over the course of 1999-2005, Cindy was hospitalized five times...

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CNN Features Edi Guyton’s story

From The Quarterly, Fall 2012 Earlier this year, in April, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent for ‘CNN Presents,’ produced a special segment on deep brain stimulation (DBS). See the video at bbrfoundation.org/cnn-video. Currently in clinical trials, the development of DBS to treat...

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