Doc Explores How Gender Affects Usefulness of Psychiatric Drugs
Dr. Briana K. Chen is a neuroscientist whose work may one day change the way doctors prescribe antidepressants. As a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Chen studies sex differences, stress, and psychiatric disorders with an interest in developing sex-specific treatments for mental health conditions.Since the development of the first antidepressants in the 1950s, the subjects in clinical trials for medications to treat stress-related disorders have been primarily male. Chen says this is a problem for a number […]