BRAINews: WEBINAR: Treatment-resistant bipolar depression – the importance of identifying and treating insulin resistance 📅 Wednesday, October 23, 4:30 p.m

Dear readers, authors, and reviewers of our journal,

We are pleased to invite you to a webinar organized by the prestigious "Med Anima" Psychiatry Clinic in Iași, Romania, exclusively for psychiatrists. This free webinar aims to deliver cutting-edge information from leading specialists from the United States regarding treatment-resistant bipolar depression and insulin resistance.

Topics covered:

  1. The importance of recognizing and treating insulin resistance in treatment-resistant bipolar depression.
  2. Presentation of the results of a 26-week study that used metformin as an insulin sensitizer, leading to significant clinical improvements in patients.
  3. Potential mechanisms underlying treatment-resistant bipolar depression associated with insulin resistance.
  4. Quantifying insulin resistance and predictive clinical models for the treatment of patients with treatment-resistant depression using metformin.

Esteemed speakers include:

  • Prof. K.N. Roy Chengappa, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Associate-Editor of our journal, BRAIN.
  • Dr. Cindy Calkin, MD, CCFP, FRCPC, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Neuroscience at Dalhousie University, Canada.
  • Dr. Jessica M. Gannon, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh.

Date and time of the webinar: Wednesday, October 23rd, 4:30 PM. The webinar will be held in English, with live translation into Romanian.

To register, please visit: https://medanima.ro/webinar-oct-2024-usa-prof .

It is an honor for the BRAIN editorial team to collaborate with such renowned experts in psychiatry and the prestigious "Med Anima" Clinic in Iași, Romania.

Sincerely,

The BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience Editorial Team