Tackling youth depression with a transformative research approach

Youth depression affects more than two out of five adolescents, yet tools to understand and treat depression are limited. Standard research approaches are siloed within disciplines and fail to translate scientific findings into real world solutions.

In response, the newly established Center for Healthy Mind and Mood at CU Boulder is pioneering a transformative approach to understand depression and promote healthy mood in young people.

Led by Roselinde Kaiser, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, the center unites transdisciplinary teams of scientists and informed youth partners. Research innovation draws upon neuroscience, psychology and lived experience of depression, for outside-the-disciplinary-box discoveries guided by youth voices.

Impact is maximized by translating research discoveries into programs with public health benefit in Colorado and beyond.