The Mental Minute with Michigan Medicine U-M Eisenberg Family Depression Center

A research professor at the U-M Addiction Center, Dr. Meghan Martz has a passion for research that increases our collective knowledge and informs clinical practice. Dr. Martz uses innovative technology like brain imaging to study the dynamic and cyclical nature of brain activity and behavior in substance use disorders. She finds optimism in the increasing research on individualized treatment approaches and the use of big data projects with large sample sizes to better inform strategies for prevention.

Will Heininger and special co-host Taylor Pahl interview Hannah Becker, a Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan. Hannah is a recent recipient of the Eisenberg Family Depression Center’s Naveed Arif Iqball Award for Mental Health Advocacy and Stigma Reduction, an annual grant awarded to students or organizations who show commitment to reducing mental health stigma in their communities. With her recent award, Hannah launched her very own community-based podcast project called the Syllabus for Overcoming Stigma (SOS), and has been helping students across Washtenaw county take ownership of their mental health journeys.

Learn more about the Iqball Award:

https://www.depressioncenter.org/naveed

Listen and subscribe to Syllabus for Overcoming Stigma: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sos-syllabus-for-overcoming-stigma/id1604916835

Will returns in October to discuss World Mental Health Day, interview psychiatrist Dr. Victor Hong about his experiences while leading Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES), and to deliver a personal message to Michigan Football during the 'Sports Minute.'

For more on Dr. Hong's background and experience, visit https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/psychiatry/victor-hong-md

In August's episode of the Mental Minute, Jeremy recaps nearly five years at the Eisenberg Family Depression Center before the guys get into a discussion about the Olympics and mental health. 

Learn more about the Eisenberg Family Depression Center at depressioncenter.org

Jeremy and Will return for the July episode where they give quick recaps of their summers thus far, a Sports Minute highlighting the racial abuse of English soccer stars and the emergence of a Japanese baseball superstar before chatting with Dr. Sagar Parikh (8:33). A professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan and one of the co-leads on the Workplace Mental Health Solutions program, Dr. Parikh shares his work on Ketamine therapy and mental health in the workplace. He extols the reasons why workplace mental health is so vital and gives a synopsis about the upcoming Workplace Mental Health Conference set for Aug. 18 (register at www.depressioncenter.org/wmhc).

In this month's episode, Jeremy and Will kick off the beginning of summer with some of the things they look forward to in the outdoors, an important Sports Minute about Naomi Osaka and Christian Eriksen (5:35), and the state of mental health in sports before being joined by Barb Hansen (15:21). Barb was an athletic counselor for over a decade at the University of Michigan, worked on the Athletes Connected program and helped guide Will through his mental health journey as a student-athlete. Barb touches on many subjects including her professional basketball playing days, gives her perspective a member of the LGBTQ community.