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Together Toward Tomorrow: ADAA’s New Three-Year Strategic Plan - May 06, 2025 

ADAA's 2025 Las Vegas Conference: Youth Mental Health: Treatments that Work and Opportunities for Prevention - February 20, 2025 

07/24/2024 New Patient Guide for Mood and Anxiety Disorders Available to the Public, ADAA

07/11/2024 New Patient Guide For Mood and Anxiety Disorders Available to the Public, American Psychiatric Association

06/26/2024 RE104: A Novel, Fast-Acting Psychedelic for Postpartum Depression, Psychiatric Times

04/24/2024 Severity of Resistant Depression Predicts Ketamine vs ECT Response, Medscape

04/23/2024 Avoidance Predicts Worse Long-term Outcomes from Intensive OCD Treatment, Medscape, Michael Wheaton, PhD, Throstur Bjorgvinsson, PhD, ABPP, and Helen Blair Simpson, MD, PhD

04/12/2024 Grant Shipp Receives Mortensen Travel Award for ADAA Anxiety & Depression Conference, University of Minnesota

04/09/2024 Vistagen to Present at the 2024 Anxiety and Depression Association (ADAA) Conference, Business Wire

04/03/2024 Reunion Neuroscience Inc. Announces Upcoming Presentations at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) 2024 Conference, Psychedelic Invest

04/02/2024 MindMed to Present at Upcoming April Medical Conferences, BusinessWire 

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• ADAA Statement on Trauma - 2023
• SCOTUS Decision - Overturning Roe v Wade, June 24, 2022
• ADAA Stands Against Racism, June 4, 2020
• FDA Approves Fast-Acting Esketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression: Clinicians and Researchers are Cautiously Optimistic, March 6, 2019
• If Elephants Could Talk…, March 4, 2019
• Tragic Losses of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain It’s Time to Give Voice to Suicide – And Act, June 8, 2018
• PTSD, Panic, and Sexual Assault, September 26, 2018

05/05/2026 Magnus Expands Access to 5-Day SAINT® Depression Therapy as Leading Health Systems Scale Nationwide Adoption, Business Wire

04/13/2026 Mood, Anxiety, & Transdiagnostic Treatment Lab (mattlab) at ADAA 2026!❤️💙, Ohio State University

04/13/2026 Social Anxiety May Influence Safety Behaviors in Teens With Food Allergy, With Melissa Engel, PhD, HCP Live, Melissa Engel, PhD

04/10/2026 Breakthrough Study Highlights Promising New Treatment for Anxiety in Adolescents, Patch

08/14/2025 Safety and Efficacy of the NMDA-2b-Selective Negative Allosteric Modulator BI 1569912: A Phase Ib Randomized Trial in Major Depressive Disorder, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

08/07/2025 Suicide Risk Screening for Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities: New Insights, Psychiatric Times

05/15/2025 Wayne State-born augmented reality for treatment of trauma continues meteoric rise in the field of stress studies, Wayne State University, Arash Javanbakht, MD, Liza Hinchey, PhD, and Lana Grasser, PhD

04/07/2025 Reunion Neuroscience Presents REKINDLE, a Phase 2 Clinical Trial Evaluating RE104 for the Treatment of Adjustment Disorder (AjD) in Cancer and Other Medical Illnesses at the Anxiety & Depression Association of America (ADAA) 2025 Conference, Yahoo!News

04/03/2025 Presentation: Hannah Fraley, UNLV

05/19/2025 Vistagen to Present at the 2025 Anxiety and Depression Association Conference, Vistagen

05/14/2025 Spring Clean Your Microbiome The Right Way, According To Gastroenterologist Dr. Sabine Hazan, USMagazine, Sabine Hazan, MD
 

09/05/2023 Shocking study reveals childhood trauma’s impact on adult health, SAMAA

07/20/2023 Mental Health as a Role in Mortality Rates in Peri- and Postpartum Black Women, Johanna S. Kaplan, PhD and Lediya Dumessa, PhD

04/25/2023 New Hope for Adult Children With 'Failure to Launch' Syndrome, MedScape, Uri Berger, PhD

04/19/2023 Direct sexual trauma associated with impaired reward response, Healio, Emma Balkind, BS

04/19/2023 Safety behavior modification intervention improves social anxiety symptoms, Healio, Kenna Ebert, BA

04/19/2023 Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder May Benefit From Acupuncture, NTK Institute, Mubeena Hanif, MD

04/19/2023 Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Improves Task Compliance in Children With Behavioural Inhibition, NTK Institute, Alanah Claybaugh, MPS

04/19/2023 Psilocybin Improves Rigid Body Dysmorphic Disorder Beliefs but Not Rigid Social Anxiety Beliefs, NTK Institute, Giselle Cornejo, MA

04/19/2023 Vistagen Presents New Fasedienol (PH94B) Research at 2023 Anxiety and Depression Association of America Conference, Market Screener, Vistagen

04/18/2023 Machine learning may identify treatment options for depression, Healio, Joshua Curtiss, PhD

04/18/2023 Strong Need for Eating Disorder Screening in Patients With PTSD, MedScape, Nick Powers

04/18/2023 Telehealth Suicide Prevention Program Safe, Acceptable, MedScape, Sarah Sullivan

04/18/2023 Psilocybin Promising for Body Dysmorphic Disorder, MedScape, Franklin Schneier, MD

04/17/2023 Lack of response inhibition does not predict intimate partner violence perpetration, Healio, Bryce Arseneau, MS

04/17/2023 Food, housing insecurity linked to pandemic-related physical, mental health changes, Healio, Sarah Abdul-Ghani

04/17/2023 Shocking study reveals childhood trauma’s impact on adult health, SAMAA

04/15/2023 VIDEO: Social, monetary rewards linked to anxiety, depression during postpartum period, Healio, Emili Cárdenas, MS

04/14/2023 Childhood trauma may contribute to adult stress dysregulation, anxiety, depression, Healio, Erika Kuzminskaite, MS

04/14/2023 Sport performance anxiety, gastrointestinal symptoms linked in college athletes, Healio, Melissa Hunt, PhD 

04/13/2023 Emotions after socialization may explain link between suicidality, social disconnect, Healio, Charles Taylor, PhD

04/13/2023 ADAA highlights 2023 award winners, Healio

• Unexpected Effect of Muscle Relaxation on Grief Severity, Medscape.com, March 29, 2022
• High-Intensity Exercise Helps Patients With Anxiety Quit Smoking, Medscape.com, March 28, 2022
• Staggeringly High' Rates of Psychiatric Symptoms After COVID-19, Medsape.com, March 28, 2022
• Mental health disability identity relies on multiple personal factors, Healio.com, March 25, 2022
• Speaker: Leadership in times of crisis requires personal awareness, Healio.com, March 24, 2022
• Multiple barriers exist for youth access to exposure and response prevention therapy, Healio.com,, March 24, 2022
• Pop culture references inform, improve cognitive behavioral therapy, Healio.com, March 23, 2022
• Engagement, participation and humor key components for successful ERP therapy, Healio.com, March 23, 2022
• Executive Function Deficits a New Treatment Target for PTSD?, Medscape.com, March 22, 2022
• Intranasal esketamine safe, effective with psychotropics to treat depression, Healio.com, March 22, 2022
• App used in conjunction with therapy linked to reduction in depression, anxiety, Healio.com, March 21, 2022
• Mental health of college students altered as COVID-19 pandemic continued, Healio.com, March 18, 2022
• Understanding factors related to suicidality leads to better therapeutic interventions, Healio.com, March 18, 2022
• Engagement key in cognitive behavioral therapy for patients with body dysmorphic disorder, Healio.com, March 17, 202

ADAA 2022 Holds Annual Conference in Denver - February 8, 2022

• Mental Health Awareness Month: COVID-19 psychiatric morbidity, CBD product and more, Healio.com, May 4, 2021
• Depressive Symptoms Plus Inflammatory Diet Add Up to Higher Frailty Risk, MedScape, Courtney Millar, Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD, March 30, 2021
• VistaGen's Poster Presentation at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America's 2021 Annual Conference Differentiates PH94B's Mechanism of Action from Highly-Addictive Benzodiazepines, Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2021
• VistaGen’s Poster Presentation at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America’s 2021 Annual Conference Differentiates PH94B’s Mechanism of Action from Highly-Addictive Benzodiazepines, BioSpace.com, March 22, 2021
• VistaGen’s Poster Presentation at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America’s 2021 Annual Conference Differentiates PH94B’s Mechanism of Action from Highly-Addictive Benzodiazepines, StreetInsder.com, March 22, 2021
• Pandemic-Related Stress Associated With PTSD Symptoms Months Later, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Learning Network, Davie WM, Stenson AF, Reda M, March 22, 2021
• SNRI 'Shows Promise' for Comorbid ADHD, PTSD, Medscape.com, Zhewu Wang, MD, and comments by ADAA President-Elect and Chief Medical Officer Charles Nemeroff, MD, PhD, March 22, 2021
• Motivational interviewing intervention feasible, acceptable for youths at risk for suicide, Healio.com, Ewa Czyz, PhD, March 22, 2021
• Increases in Emotion Dysregulation, Repetitive Negative Thinking Seen During Pandemic, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Learning Network, Tellez-Monnery K, McDermott MJ, March 22, 2021
• Emphasizing coping methods may help at-risk youth navigate COVID-19 pandemic, Healio.com,  Alexandra H. Bettis, PhD, March 19, 2021
• Childhood Maltreatment May Predict Better Response to IV Ketamine, PsychCongress, O’Brien B, Lijffijt M, Murphy N, et al, March 19, 2021
• Clear Goal Setting, Allowing Failure Are Key in Supporting Childrens’ Virtual Learning, PsychCongress, Jennifer Lynch, PsyD and Jenny Yip, PsyD, ABPP, March 19, 2021
• People with trauma exposure at increased risk for obsessive-compulsive symptoms, Healio.com, Rose Luehrs, MA, MS, March 18, 2021
• CBD product may reduce severe anxiety and related symptoms, Healio.com, Staci Gruber, PhD, March 18, 2021
• ADAA 2021 Virtual Conference - Press ReleaseFebruary 1, 2021