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Rapidly-Acting Treatments for Treatment-Resistant Depression (RAPID) Rapidly-Acting Treatments for Treatment-Resistant Depression (RAPID) is an NIMH-funded research project that promotes development of speedier therapies for severe, treatment-resistant depression. The initiative is supporting a team of researchers, led by Maurizio Fava, M.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital, who are identifying and testing promising pharmacological and/or non-pharmacological treatments that lift depression within a few days. By contrast, current antidepressant medications usually take a few weeks to work �...

Section on Molecular Neuroscience Staff Lee E. Eiden is the Chief of the Section on Molecular Neuroscience in the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. He received his B.A. in Chemistry from Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois, and Ph.D. in Pharmacology from The University of Kansas, and was a Staff Fellow, PRAT Fellow, and Senior Staff Fellow in the NIMH Intramural Research Program before joining the faculty as a Principal Investigator and Chief of the Unit on Cell Biology in 1987, and Chief of the S...

PET Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Research - Lisheng Cai, PhD

Dr. Melissa Brotman Biography Dr. Melissa A. Brotman leads the Neuroscience and Novel Therapeutics Unit (NNT) in the Emotion and Development Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Intramural Research Program (IRP). Dr. Brotman received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she specialized in cognitive behavioral therapy for mood and anxiety disorders. After completing her clinical internship at the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System/University of Maryland-Baltimore, she completed post-doctoral training in neuroscience, focusing o...

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...