Maren Nyer, PhD, is the Director of Yoga Studies and the Associate Director of the Research Coordinator Program in the Depression Clinical and Research Program (DCRP), and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Her research interests include the treatment of mood disorders and associated symptoms, specifically developing and evaluating innovative and complementary and integrative treatments for depression.
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This research highlights the potential of resilience training as a scalable, cost-effective intervention for reducing loneliness and improving mental health outcomes in at-risk young adults. -
In adults with moderate to severe depression, heated yoga sessions delivered over an 8 week period were associated with clinically significant reductions in depressive symptoms. -
In medication-free young adults higher suicidality was associated with smaller right frontal pole size and reduced connectivity to the bilateral inferior frontal cortex. -
College students reporting higher rates of weekly cannabis use were more likely to report psychotic symptoms. -
Four weeks of incentivized cannabis abstinence among adolescents and young adults was associated with an increase in both the frequency and amount of alcohol used.
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Adjunctive testosterone was no more effective than placebo in improving symptoms of depression, fatigue, or sexual dysfunction in women with antidepressant-resistant MDD.