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...
Drs. Christian A. Webb and Diego A. Pizzagalli seek to determine which individuals with depression are best suited for antidepressant medications.
Drs. Christian A. Webb and Diego A. Pizzagalli developed an algorithm to identify who may best respond to 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...
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...
Drs. Diego Pizzagalli and Christian Webb found activity in a certain brain region that determined depression treatment response.
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, is an assistant professor 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 Pennsylvania, under the mentorship of...
