Jonathan Flint, UCLA behavioral geneticist and Depression Grand Challenge Executive Committee member, shared background about the theory of the “warrior gene” in a blog post written for the Oxford University Press.

UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Co-Director Michelle Craske (psychology and psychiatry professor) was a featured speaker at a virtually streamed Scientific Symposium presented by One Mind on September 12, 2020. One Mind’s 26th Music Festival for Brain Health celebrated groundbreaking ideas, brain health and community with a virtually streamed concert and Scientific Symposium.

The article shared the “five C’s” for managing COVID-19 anxiety, as well as COVID-19–related insights from UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Co-Director Michelle Craske (psychology and psychiatry).

UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Co-Director Michelle Craske talked with “UCLA Health Zone Show” co-hosts Dr. Phil Cohen and Adam Auslund on May 23, 2020.

UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Co-Director Michelle Craske (psychology and psychiatry professor) joined Cleveland Cavaliers star and former UCLA standout Kevin Love for a conversation about mindfulness during an Instagram Live timed to coincide with Mental Health Month on May 15, 2020.

Michelle Craske, PhD (psychology and psychiatry professor at UCLA and member of the Executive Committee of the Depression Grand Challenge) was the 128th recipient of the UCLA Academic Senate’s Faculty Research Lectureship for the 2019-2020 academic year. 

Michelle Craske (psychology and psychiatry professor at UCLA and member of the Executive Committee of the Depression Grand Challenge) joined Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player and former UCLA standout Kevin Love on the Today Show with Hoda Kotb on March 18, 2020.

Michelle Craske, Depression Grand Challenge Executive Committee member, met with Kevin Love, Cleveland Cavaliers star and former UCLA standout, for a discussion on mental health awareness on the eve of World Mental Health Day.

Jonathan Flint, genetics expert and DGC Executive Committee member, traveled with UCLA Chancellor Gene Block to sites like London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Geneva, Singapore, Bangkok, Taipei, Tokyo and Seoul.

Nelson Freimer, director of the Depression Grand Challenge, was interviewed in a UCLA Newsroom article about findings from a study published in Nature he co-led with researchers from UCLA, in collaboration with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; the University of Michigan and 18 other institutions.