Hot Topics in Depression

In this video, Rebecca W. Brendel, MD, JD, president of the American Psychiatric Association,director of law and ethics at the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital, associate professor of psychiatry, director of the master of bioethics program and associate director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, discussed:

• reported mental health concerns as COVID-19 becomes endemic;
• the positive and negative effects of the pandemic on delivering treatments to patients with depression;
• the nuances of managing pandemic-related depression during an ongoing pandemic;
• the potential link between COVID-19 infection and depression; and
• ongoing efforts to address pandemic-related depression on a national level, including the Collaborative Care model.