Discover Magazine’s November 2019 issue highlighted the Depression Grand Challenge’s (DGC) efforts to understand the genetic and environmental causes of depression with the ultimate goal of developing new and better treatments. The author provided details about the series of studies designed to uncover the genetic and environmental causes of depression.
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Nelson Freimer (psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences professor and director of the Depression Grand Challenge) was interviewed in a UCLA Newsroom article about findings from a study published in Nature he co-led with researchers from UCLA, in collaboration with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; the University of Michigan and 18 other institutions. Researchers studied the DNA of ~20,000 people from parts of Finland with low genetic variation and were able to show the potential for using genome sequencing (genes within the genome) rather than the entire genome to find variations that influence disease.
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The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge (DGC) recently launched the Perinatal Mood and Behavior Tracking (PMBT) study, a pilot partnering with the OB/GYN clinic (part of the UCLA Health System).
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DGC Newsletter – Issue #8
Timing: Winter/Spring 2019
Topic: DGC Progress to Date
Beginning in spring 2017, UCLA Depression Grand Challenge (DGC) started publishing a subscriber-based newsletter. Issue #8 provides a look at progress to date.
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DGC Newsletter – Issue #6
Timing: Summer 2018
Topic: Innovative Treatment Network and 100K Study Components: Human Studies Projects
Beginning in spring 2017, UCLA Depression Grand Challenge (DGC) started publishing a subscriber-based newsletter. Issue #6 featured the Human Studies Projects, which cross both the Innovative Treatment Network and 100K Study components of the DGC.
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