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UAB Mood Disorders Program:
A Rapid Expansion of Research

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issue h i g h li g h ts
UAB Mood Disorders Program: A Rapid
Expansion of Research
UAB Addiction Recovery:
Fighting Dependence
Training for Psychosomatic Medicine
Meador-Woodruff Receives APA
Mentorship Award
Dwivedi Leads Translational Neuroscience

The program’s first chair, Patrick Linton,
MD (top) conducted research in 1960-era
facilities and early computers. Current
chair Meador-Woodruff (right) examines
current modern laboratories. Bottom:
Imaging scan of current mood disorders
research.

The UAB Mood Disorders Program has rapidly

focused on understanding the causes of depression and

expanded over the past year to include six additional

bipolar disorder and the development of better treatment

specialists in research or clinical care. In addition, the

approaches.

group has moved into newly renovated space in the UAB

The Mood Disorders Program investigates the

Sparks Center, adjacent to the Center for Psychiatric

causes of depression, bipolar disorder, and suicide, and

Medicine.

provides treatments for patients with these conditions. It

Directing the program is Richard Shelton, MD, the

provides assessments and educational partnerships to the

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Department of Psychiatry and Neurobiology’s vice chair

community. “Our goal is to achieve a Top 10 ranking and

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for research. Shelton says, “This 14,000 square-foot

become a national leader in mood disorders research,”

Featured Clinical Trials

expansion represents a true state-of-the-art clinical research

Shelton says.

UAB Medicine News

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Measures of Success

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Publications of Note

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New Faculty

space for the department.” Shelton was recruited in 2012

One-third of the department’s research funding is in

to establish this multidisciplinary initiative that provides

mood disorders, according to Psychiatry Chair James

diagnostic and consultative assessment, educational

Meador-Woodruff, MD, and the department is heavily

programming, community outreach, and advanced research

engaged in community outreach programs across the state

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