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Student strength: Addressing depression before it starts

Student strength: Addressing depression before it starts

February 7, 2012

  How can college students draw upon their own strengths, resilience, and sense of social connectedness to help them maintain mental health and wellness? Researchers, students and U-M community members will discuss this question at the annual Depression on College Campuses Conference, held March

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Center’s research on stem cells and bipolar disorder supported by new gift

Center’s research on stem cells and bipolar disorder supported by new gift

April 9, 2012

With the help of a recent $1 million commitment, the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center will continue its mission to unravel the unknowns

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Severity of chronic pain and related mood disorders linked to neighborhood status

Severity of chronic pain and related mood disorders linked to neighborhood status

March 1, 2012

Living in a poor neighborhood was linked with worse chronic pain among young adults, although young black patients faced difficulties with pain management

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Honors & Awards »

Kilbourne honored for contributions to mood disorder research

Kilbourne honored for contributions to mood disorder research

May 3, 2012

The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), the nation’s largest patient-run organization focusing on depression and bipolar disorder, has honored

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Conroy elected AASM Insomnia section chair

Conroy elected AASM Insomnia section chair

April 19, 2012

Deirdre Conroy, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, has been elected to serve a one-year term as chair of the Insomnia Section of the American Academy

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Predicting depression treatment response

Predicting depression treatment response

May 18, 2012

A collaboration between the University of Michigan Depression Center and three other institutions will investigate how biomarkers can be used to predict

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Rumination and “self-distancing”

Rumination and “self-distancing”

April 26, 2012

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Depression Center member Ethan Kross, Ph.D., directs U-M’s Emotion and Self-Control Laboratory. Part of his research

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Campus program provides essential layer of support

Students across the University of Michigan who face challenges in managing their mental health on campus are benefitting from the outreach services of the Campus Mind Works (CMW) program, a partnership

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Greden honored for advancement of depression and bipolar research

John F. Greden, M.D., executive director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center, has been

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Sen receives inaugural Stern research award

Srijan Sen, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, has been named the first recipient of the Oscar

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Novick named inaugural Jenkins award recipient

Danielle M. Novick, Ph.D., a U-M psychiatry research fellow, is the recipient of the first Phil

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Returning vets have significant mental health care needs

Sheila Rauch, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and director of Serving Returning Veterans’ Mental Health at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, was featured in a News Herald article about the

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Blow, Ellingrod, and Clauw receive research mentor awards

   Frederick Blow, Ph.D., Vicki Ellingrod, Pharm.D., and Daniel J. Clauw, M.D., are three of the eight winners of the inaugural MICHR Distinguished Clinical and Translational Research Mentor Award from

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