Center for Psychopharmacologic Research

and Treatment in the News.....

WORCESTER, Mass.— Adding an antidepressant medication doesn't help depressed people who are already being treated with mood

stablilizers for bipolar disorder, but it also doesn't trigger episods of mania, according to a large clinical trial reported online yesterday

in the New England Journal of Medicine. "This study has shown that two very commonly used antidepressants did not make a

difference", Dr. Jayendra Patel, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester,

said in an interview.  One of the article's co-authors, Dr. Patel led the UMass site for 4,360- patient, 22-center trial called the

Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD), sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health.

Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA), March 29, 2007, Section: Health

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WORCESTER, Mass.— W. Peter Metz, MD, and Anthony J. Rothschild, MD, both of the University of Massachusetts Medical School

and UMass Memorial Medical Center, have been chosen by the  Massachusetts Psychiatric Society (MPS) to receive its prestigious Outstanding

Psychiatrist Awards. Drs. Metz and Rothschild are among six professionals chosen statewide for their exceptional service in the areas of research,

clinical psychiatry, public sector, advancement of the profession, education and lifetime achievement.

“The Department of Psychiatry is doubly delighted for Peter Metz and Tony Rothschild,” said . “This is a wonderful and very well

deserved tribute to Peter, who has been the motivating force behind our child psychiatry residency, and has been deeply involved in

teaching adult residents, medical students, and practitioners, for many years. And Tony, who is one of the world’s experts on psychotic

depression, has made enormous contributions to this department since his arrival in 1996.  In addition to founding our Center for

Psychopharmacologic Research and Treatment, Tony has helped in completely revamping our residency training in biological

psychiatry and developing our psychopharmacologic research efforts. We couldn’t be more pleased for them both.” 

Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, Chair of the Department, April 2004

For more details go to http://www.umassmed.edu/pap/news/2004/04_16_04.aspx