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ADAA
2017 has been a very busy year at ADAA! The San Francisco Annual Conference in April was a very successful highlight. With a record number of attendees (over 1,300) from across the United States and around the world attending more than 170 innovative sessions, listening to engaging keynotes and participating in special symposia, ADAA's Conference shone an important spotlight on behavioral medicine and its application to anxiety and depressive disorders.
2017 saw a sharp growth in the number of monthly professional education webinars and member blog posts that ADAA offers the mental health community.
ADAA was delighted to receive a special grant from the Hope & Grace Fund allowing us to launch an exciting new initiative "Turning a Laser-Focus on Women’s Issues in the Treatment of Anxiety, Depression and Related Disorders."
2017 also marked an important milestone for ADAA, with the launch of our first Spanish-language online peer-to-peer community (which now joins our English language online community of more than 10,000 subscribers) and a Spanish language website resource page.
This past year, ADAA collaborated with Pedestal Foods, a contract food services company with clients in higher education, assisted living and K-12 on an exciting new initiative to provide mental health wellness training to school cafeteria workers.
ADAA welcomed many members to their new professional home in 2017. More than 1,700 national and international members engaged with their colleagues through the enhanced member community (now mobile-friendly) and a new membership platform. In addition, 60 members contributed their time and expertise to author public and professional blog posts with 30 members hosting webinars for both the public and professional ADAA communities. Dozens of members worked with the ADAA staff to ensure that website and social media content remains current and engaging and 35 members volunteered to speak with the media and/or contribute articles/blogs for U.S. and international news sources. ADAA member expertise has helped millions.
We are also very grateful for our many supporters and donors who are so critical in ensuring the ongoing success of our mission. This holiday season we invite ADAA members to consider making a donation to ADAA's Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program (CDLP) Fund the Future Campaign. Your contribution helps fund the expenses involved in offering this important professional education program to more than 40 early career clinicians and researchers. We also welcome general donations to help ADAA continue to offer free information and resources for our more than 22 million annual website visitors.
Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication to our mission. From all of us at ADAA, best wishes for a wonderful New Year!
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As 2017 comes to a close, ADAA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of Anxiety and Depression Insights a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 9.
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Science Daily
From May 30: Probiotics may relieve symptoms of depression, as well as help gastrointestinal upset, research from McMaster University has found. In a study published in the medical journal Gastroenterology, researchers found that twice as many adults with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) reported improvements from co-existing depression when they took a specific probiotic than adults with IBS who took a placebo.
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HealthDay News via Clinical Advisor
From Nov. 28: For youths with depression, there are distinct treatment trajectories, which have varying health outcomes, according to a study published online Nov. 20 in JAMA Pediatrics. Researchers conducted a longitudinal cohort study of youths aged 18 years or younger with a new diagnosis of depression and at least 12 months of follow-up from diagnosis.
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Medscape
From April 25: Children treated for anxiety disorders with psychotherapy, antidepressants or a combination of the two show no significant differences in outcomes or remission at five-year follow-up. Furthermore, a majority of children experience relapse and chronic anxiety, new long-term data show. The research was presented at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) Conference 2017.
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Care for Your Mind
From Jan. 31: This is a wildly exciting time for cancer research. Work on new drugs is barreling ahead. Thanks to years of hard work, scientists are starting to understand the biology of cancer better than ever. This knowledge is helping them develop personalized treatments that can potentially save millions of lives. So why aren't we seeing the same kind of innovation for one of the other epidemics facing our nation: depression?
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Neuroscience News
From Feb. 14: Columbia University Medical Center researchers have found that a single dose of ketamine, given one week before a stressful event, can buffer against a heightened fear response. The study, conducted in mice, suggests that prophylactic administration of ketamine might prevent post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in soldiers and others who subsequently experience psychological trauma.
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Medical Xpress
From May 16: An international study of more than 3.2 million people with severe mental illness reveals a substantially increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease compared to the general population. The research shows that people with severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression, have a 53 percent higher risk for having cardiovascular disease than healthy controls.
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The New York Times
From Oct. 17: The disintegration of Jake's life took him by surprise. It happened early in his junior year of high school, while he was taking three Advanced Placement classes, running on his school's cross-country team and traveling to Model United Nations conferences. It was a lot to handle, but Jake — the likable, hard-working oldest sibling in a suburban North Carolina family — was the kind of teenager who handled things.
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Science Daily
From Sept. 19: Although the clinical efficacy of antidepressants in children and adolescents is proven, it is frequently accompanied by side effects. In addition, the influence of the placebo effect on the efficacy of antidepressants is unclear. A meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry has now shown that, although antidepressants are more effective than placebos, the difference is minor and varies according to the type of mental disorder.
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Psych Central
From April 11: A new meta-analysis involving dozens of international researchers suggests that an influential 2003 study on the interaction of genes, environment and depression may have missed the mark. For years, scientists have been trying to determine what effect a gene linked to the brain chemical serotonin may have on depression in people exposed to stress.
Reuters
From Feb. 28: Online programs offering cognitive behavioral therapy without the therapist can reduce depression symptoms for some, according to a new review of existing research on the topic. Automated CBT programs, or iCBT, which work to change a patient's non-productive thoughts, attitudes and beliefs, are designed to make it easier for people to get therapy at low cost and with less fear of stigmatization.
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