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Researchers point to overlooked dangers as school mental health programs exacerbate adolescent distress.

EVE SIMMONS: I took antidepressants for the first time a few weeks before my 16th birthday. It was three weeks into my first and most gruelling episode of all-consuming, paralysing anxiety.

Join a Research Study: Enrolling nationally from around the country To find out if you qualify, 1-301-827-1350 [TTY: 1-866-411-1010]. Healthy volunteers (teens who do not have mental health diagnoses) are needed to assist investigators find causes of depression in teenagers. The study goals are to understand how the brain changes when teenagers have depression and use that knowledge to find better treatments for depression. Healthy volunteers who participate in research assist investigators by being members of a group that can be compared to a group of those who have major depression. The st...

Who We Are Stop/Play Principal Investigator Argyris Stringaris, MD, PhD, FRCPsych is a Senior Investigator at NIMH who researches and treats depression and related conditions in young people. He is also Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Georgetown University. He trained in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London and received his PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He served as an Attending Physician (Consultant Psychiatrist) at the National and Specialist Mood Disorder Clinic at the Maudsley and was a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Ps...