News & Updates

• BBC News: A new report predicts that "presenteeism" - where an individual is at work but not productive because of untreated depression - could cost the UK around £900m a year.
  
  
• Dr. Maria Feliz-Ortiz: Depressed people often drink to “self-medicate,” to relieve some of the sadness or emotional pain. But depression can be a consequence of drinking, too.
  
  
• NY Times: Op-Ed: Let's wait until we find the right medical treatment before we assume that depressed patients just don't want to get well.
  
  
• Depression survivor Delonte West returns to the Cavaliers for another awesome season of basketball.
  
  
• Dallas Morning News columnist Steve Blow has been honored by the Texas chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
  
  
• NARSAD awarded its annual prizes for outstanding research -- among the most coveted in psychiatry and neuroscience this week. Recipients include Mark S. George, M.D. of the Medical University of South Carolina, one of world's leading experts in the use of brain imaging and stimulation to understand depression and to devise new antidepressant treatments.