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White House Mental Health Virtual Event: How Science Offers Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression

White House Mental Health Virtual Event: How Science Offers Hope for Treatment-Resistant DepressionThe White House is hosting a series of virtual conversations to highlight promising areas of current research and understand what is still needed to address the Nation’s deepening mental health crisis. This event features an NIMH expert on mood disorders who speaks about work to develop new medications for treatment-resistant depression and describes the arc from fundamental research to a now-approved treatment. The event also features a patient who gives their first-hand account about what it was like to take part in this research program. Participants: - Dr. Carrie D. Wolinetz is the Deputy Director for Health & Life Sciences at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) - Dr. Carlos A. Zarate, Chief, Section on the Neurobiology and Treatment of Mood Disorders and Chief of Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at The George Washington University

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