Grand Challenges

Long-term effectiveness of family-level intervention for U.S.military children, families affected by wartime deployments

Research led by Dr. Patricia Lester (Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior) found that family-level preventive intervention can lead to improved behavioral health outcomes for military families affected by wartime deployment. The deployed parent, home-based parent and their children report results that highlight significant reductions in anxiety and depression symptoms after intervention.

15 UCLA stories from 2015

The Depression Grand Challenge was featured in the top UCLA stories of the year!

Nov. 30: Go ‘Blue for Hope’

UCLA invites Bruins to show their support for UCLA’s Depression Grand Challenge research initiative and UCLA bring hope to 350 million around the world who struggle with depression.

UCLA scientists receive prestigious BRAIN Initiative grant from NIH

The microscopes will visualize individual neurons expressing calcium-triggered fluorophores, which light up when specific wavelengths of light are shined on them.

Daniel Aharoni/UCLA Health

Research led by Dr. Peyman Golshani, (David Geffen School of Medicine) was awarded $2.3 million from the BRAIN Initiative to study how neural circuits in brains process, encode and retrieve information.

UCLA Grand Challenge aims to tackle depression on global scale

UCLA researchers launched a 35-year project Wednesday that aims to decrease the global economic and health impact of depression by 50 percent by 2050. The Depression Grand Challenge initiative will be the largest UCLA research initiative thus far, with an anticipated budget of $525 million for the first 10 years, according to the statement released.

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