National Network of Depression Centers to tackle depression and bipolar disorder
ANN ARBOR, MI - Imagine if you could walk into a unique medical center created just for treating your depression or bipolar illness. Imagine if all of the doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers and researchers were dedicated to you and finding personalized solutions for these disorders, known to be among the most disabling and costly in America. What would that feel like for you or your family member? What would that mean for the future of treating the disease?
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A Growing National Network
Starting in 2007, the UCSF Depression Center began collaborating with 14 other top-ranked academic medical centers to form the National Network of Depression Centers. This network is aimed at improving research in depression, fostering multisite collaborations, decreasing the stigma of depression, and developing best practices for clinical management of this challenging disorder. The network is also aimed at mimicking the success of comprehensive cancer centers which led to dramatic improvements in bringing state-of-the-art treatment expertise to broad regional areas. The ultimate goal is to have every US citizen be within 200 miles of a National Network Depression Center, so that easy access to expert treatment and consultation will be available nationwide.
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National Depression Centers Network Includes UC, Lindner Center of HOPE
CINCINNATI—For decades, national networks of centers of excellence have fostered breakthroughs, information sharing and rapid translation of new treatments into clinical settings for cancer and cardiovascular patients.
Now, 14 university-based departments of psychiatry and associated multi-disciplinary colleagues, including the University of Cincinnati (UC) and the Lindner Center of HOPE, have joined together to establish the National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC) to battle depression and bipolar illness with the same intensity.
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Opening of nation’s 2nd comprehensive depression center gets national network under way
April 14, 2008
With the founding of a new Depression Center at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, a national effort to link centers focused on depression and bipolar disorder has shifted into full gear.
The new Colorado center, on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO, joins the University of Michigan Depression Center – which since 2001 has been the nation’s only NIH-supported comprehensive center devoted to patient care, research, education and public policy in depression and related disorders.
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Building New Fronts in the Battle Against Depression
“Depression hurts,” declares a ubiquitous television ad by a pharmaceutical company claiming it has a pill that will ease the pain. Rabindar Subbian says the statement doesn’t come close to telling the whole story.
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