In the Media: In Study, Phone-Based Mindfulness App Helped Young Teens Ruminate Less
Dr. Christian A. Webb examines how smartphone mindfulness training apps can help teens reduce repetitive and negative thinking.
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Christian A. Webb, PhD, Receives Anne Marie Albano Award From ABCT
Christian A. Webb, PhD, received the 2021 Anne Marie Albano Early Career Award for Excellence in the Integration of Science and Practice from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). Webb, who is the director of McLean’s Treatment and Etiology of Depression in Youth (TEDY)...
Video: Lecture – Examining the Active Ingredients of Depression Treatment for Adolescents
Presented by Christian A. Webb, PhD, McLean Hospital – McLean Forum lecture Psychotherapies, including cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), have been shown to be effective at improving depressive symptoms in adolescents. However, the mechanisms through which depressed teens improve—and why many do not...
Philanthropy Bolsters Research Into Teen Depression
How do you predict which teenagers will develop clinical depression? Can you use brain activity, mood or behavior patterns, and other information? Are there targeted prevention strategies that could stop a vulnerable young person from plunging into depression? And for teenagers who are currently...
In the Media: New Algorithm Can Predict Response to Antidepressants
Drs. Christian A. Webb and Diego A. Pizzagalli seek to determine which individuals with depression are best suited for antidepressant medications.
In the Media: McLean Hospital Researchers Identify Patients Best Suited for Antidepressants
Drs. Christian A. Webb and Diego A. Pizzagalli developed an algorithm to identify who may best respond to antidepressants.
Algorithm Identifies Patients Best Suited for Antidepressants
McLean Hospital researchers have completed a study that sought to determine which individuals with depression are best suited for antidepressant medications. Their findings, published in Psychological Medicine on July 2, 2018, have led to the development of a statistical algorithm that identifies...
In the Media: Brain Scans Could Predict How Depression Patients Will Respond to Drugs, Therapy, or Both, Study Claims
Drs. Diego Pizzagalli and Christian Webb found activity in a certain brain region that determined depression treatment response.
McLean Scientists: Brain Activity Can Predict Success of Depression Treatment
McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers believe they have uncovered a method that could be useful in predicting a depressed patient’s treatment prognosis, prior to starting treatment. In the paper “Pretreatment Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex Activity in Relation to Symptom...
Two of McLean’s Researchers Receive Prestigious Pope Award
McLean researchers Christian A. Webb, PhD, assistant neuroscientist in the Laboratory for Translational and Affective Neuroscience, and W. Brad Ruzicka, MD, PhD, assistant neuroscientist in the Mailman Research Center, are winners of the 25th annual Alfred Pope Award for Young Investigators, McLean...
Christian A. Webb, PhD
Christian A. Webb, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Treatment and Etiology of Depression in Youth (TEDY) Laboratory at McLean Hospital. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of...
