A Drug Developed for Women by Women | Briana Chen | TEDxYale

Dr. Briana Chen, of Columbia University, discusses her work researching sex differences, stress, and psychiatric disorders, with a focus on sex-specific treatments for depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Dr. Briana K. Chen is a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently received her PhD from Columbia University. Her research focuses on investigating the neural substrates underlying stress resilience, with the ultimate goal of developing sex-specific drugs for the treatment and prevention of stress-related psychiatric disorders. She has filed multiple patents and won numerous awards for her research, including a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and was recently listed on Forbes 30 Under 30: Healthcare. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@williesnyder2899]

Yes indeed. The “necessary” non-human lab animal testing… I had a relative who was employed in large animal disease research. I don’t know a totally humane work around to using non-human animals…but I am also completely opposed to the torment which mammals and fowl. Also, who can forget about the “Frogs In Hot Water” experiments… I’m glad that biological differences in antidepressant receptivity are being scrutinized! I’m wonder how we perform such examination without needed to “measure the levels of” stress, anxiety, depression and…stark terror experienced by non-human lab animals! Rats have Rights too…

[@Lolcoca]

That’s quite a caricature ! As a woman, for example, we do not have the same moods as men during menstruation ! It can depend on several factors . . . From time to time, maybe it is the brain of each human also that interprets things differently !