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Director, Anxiety Disorders Pr The Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, in conju 19098751

Ketamine, a Schedule III non-narcotic substance, has been available to licensed prescribers since the 1970s. Since then, multiple studies have shown ketamine helps some depression patients who feel as though they’ve tried everything else. 

The GBMAD Section’s mission is to discover genes that contribute to the risk for mood and anxiety disorders.

Training Opportunities The NIH offers a rich training environment. Dr. Innis strongly emphasizes training and career development for everyone in his laboratory, regardless of whether the person is here for a time-limited period (e.g., graduate student or postdoctoral fellow) or is in a permanent staff position (e.g., Staff Scientist). He frequently gives lectures to the group on ad hoc topics and also teaches two courses: writing scientific papers and pharmacokinetic modeling. In addition, the laboratory has a journal club, project meetings, and thumbnail presentations. Trainees improve their...

Are we raising little germaphobes? The pandemic has heightened the fear of germs in children—but that might be OK. ByConnie Chang Email Meg St-Esprit’s seven-year-old son had always been wary of germs. If a classmate “licked the end of a marker and put it back in the bin,” she says, he’d avoid the markers for the rest of the day. But the constant barrage of COVID-19 news this past year amplified those fears to a fever pitch. “He’s a ball of anxiety,” says St-Esprit, a mother of four in Pennsylvania. “He got to the point where, within our house, he was like, ‘I don’t want...