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Anna-Monika Prize 2022 A 2nd prize has been awarded to Mark Rasenick, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA for his work on the importance of lipid rafts for signal transduction mediated by antidepressants and ketamine. He ...

How Effective Are Anti-Depressants? Many Americans battle depression. How do anti-depressant drugs work, and are how effective are they? Nearly 50 million adults in America experienced at least one mental illness in 2019. That's according ...

Biomarker May Predict Response to Antidepressants Psychiatrists understand the frustration patients feel when they start an antidepressant, deal with the side effects, and do not experience any change in their symptoms for as many as ...

Protein-Based Biomarker Could Enable Precision Medicine For Depression January 25, 2022 | It has proven exceedingly difficult to identify reliable and reproducible genetic markers for depression, but it now appears possible to efficiently leverage a ...

UIC Researchers Find New Biomarker Tracking Antidepressant Response Found in human platelets, the cellular biomarker can track the extent of depression in individual patients. Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) in the US have ...

Local researchers looking in the blood to help determine if medications are working properly. There is potential for a new tool in the fight for better mental health. About 30% of patients do not get ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have created a simple biomarker to figure out who has depression and how anti-depressant treatments are working. View this video on FOX32 Chicago. RECENT NEWS
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Researchers say the biomarker can be identified in a simple blood test that could revolutionize how depression is diagnosed and treated. New research shows scientists have found a specific protein in both our brains and ...

Alan chats with Dr. Mark Rasenick, a distinguished professor of physiology and psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine and lead author of the study, about a biomarker for depression. RECENT ...

Pax receives second NIMH grant Pax Neuroscience was awarded an STTR grant, entitled "Using a novel model of antidepressant efficacy to discover new compounds and personalized treatments." The funds, from the National Institute of Mental Health ...

UIC Distinguished University Professor named AAAS Fellow Mark M. Rasenick, Distinguished University Professor in physiology and biophysics and psychiatry and founding director of the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of ...

Pax's Biomarker Technology Suggests a Different Site of Action for "Rapid Acting Antidepressant" Ketamine Ketamine acts within hours to ameliorate depression for some. This common drug of abuse is generally thought to work by blocking ...