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Facts about the U-M Depression Center and Ambulatory Psychiatry:
- In 2001,
the U-M Regents established the Depression Center at the
U-M Health System, making it the nation’s
first comprehensive center devoted to depressive illnesses.
- The center
provides comprehensive clinical care, education, and research
in the area of depression and bipolar disorder.
- More than
100 physicians, scientists, psychologists, social
workers, nurses, and staff form a network providing care for
patients, conducting
research and educating.
- The center
addresses depressive illnesses in people of all ages, including
children, adolescents,
adults
and geriatrics.
- Specialized
programs are underway for women, postpartum disorders and treatment-resistant
forms.
- The Depression
Center brings together depression researchers and clinicians
from within eight schools,
colleges and institutions
at the University.
- The center
is accelerating the pace of neuroscience and behavioral science
research in
depression,
bringing advances more promptly
to patients and families.
- A National
Advisory Board of 20 prominent individuals aids the U-M Depression
Center.
The board consists
of nationally recognized
leaders, from noted newsman Mike Wallace
to Michigan and Rhode Island Congressmen Joseph
Knollenberg
and Patrick Kennedy, respectively.
- The Depression
Center greatly expanded ongoing depression screening events,
and
brought national
attention to
issues such as depression
on college campuses and the effects of
maternal stress and depression on infants.
Facts about the planned U-M Depression Center and Ambulatory Psychiatry
facility:
- Three-level,
106,500 gross square-foot facility, with 440 parking spaces
- 54,200
square feet will be dedicated to outpatient research projects,
adult and child clinics and patient consult rooms
- Connects
to the southwest side of the existing U-M East Ann Arbor
Health Center on Plymouth Road in Ann Arbor
- $38 million
building project funded in part by $12.5 million in gifts to
the U-M
Depression Center with submitted
federal grants requests expected to further fund construction
- Construction
tentatively scheduled to begin in 2004 and the facility will
open in 2006
- Brings
together child, adolescent, adult and geriatrics programs to
treat patients throughout the life
span
- Integrates
treatment for outpatients with psychiatric conditions such
as anxiety, panic attacks, school
phobia, substance use and
attention deficit disorders
- Use of
natural light, open space and an easy-to-navigate layout will
create
an inviting,
relaxed atmosphere.
- Plans
include an auditorium for use by patients, visitors, faculty,
staff, and community advocacy organizations.
- Adds 28,000
square feet of new research space to expand and integrate
multidisciplinary contributions
from the investigators within the
eight schools, colleges and institutions
across the University who currently participate in the
center’s research
and educational efforts.
Facts about depression:
- Depression
and bipolar disorder have been determined by the World Health
Organization to be the most disabling disorders in the
world.
- More than
18 million Americans - about 9.5 percent of adults -- suffer
from clinical depression every year.
- One in
five women and one in eight men will develop depression during
their lives.
- As many
as one in eight adolescents and one in 33 children have depression.
- One in
ten pregnant women will experience depression, and one in eight
will develop postpartum depression
after delivering the
baby.
- Depression
is treatable. Options include medication and specialized counseling
therapies.
- Only about
10 percent of all people with depression receive adequate treatment,
due to social stigma,
lack of symptom
awareness, poor
diagnosis, incomplete treatment regimens and
inability to pay. The center’s programs aim to counteract
that pattern.
- Untreated
depression and bipolar disorder are the leading causes of suicide.
- The cost
of depression in the United States has been estimated to exceed
$44 billion annually.
- Depression
is due to brain changes that create a significant disturbance
of mood, producing
symptoms such as:
- Being
sad or "blue"
- Loss
of interest or enjoyment in activities
- Change
in appetite or weight
- Excessive
frustration or irritability
- Difficulty
sleeping, or oversleeping
- Feeling
restless or "slowed
down"
- Energy
loss or fatigue
- Feelings
of worthlessness or inappropriate
guilt
- Difficulty
thinking,
concentrating or
making decisions
- Recurrent
thoughts
of death
or suicid
- Chronic
pain,
such as
frequent headaches
- Other
physical
symptoms such
as gastrointestinal
complaints
- Depression
can strike at any time in life. Different forms affect children,
adolescents,
adults, pregnant
women, new mothers, and
the elderly.
- People
with heart disease are at a greater risk for depression, and
people with depression
are
at greater
risk of heart
disease.
- Depression
is a recurrent, episodic,
lifetime disorder. Afflicted
individuals, if untreated,
will experience
an average of four to
six episodes and they tend
to last longer and become more severe with each recurrence.
Early
detection
and intervention
are key.
- Depression
is not "all
in your mind" -
its symptoms have been firmly
connected to imbalances in
brain chemicals
called
neurotransmitters.
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