Audrey Gruss LIVE from the Watermill Center,
August 11, 2015

HDRF Founding Chair Audrey Gruss will speak tonight on “Depression: The Cancer of the 21^st Century” at the Watermill Center — operated by Robert Wilson’s Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation — in Water Mill, New York.

You can watch the event LIVE via this stream:

http://livestream.com/accounts/14465766/audreygruss

We hope you will tune in for this important talk and discussion!

New Psychology Today blog Features HDRF Researchers,
August 4, 2015

We’re honored to report that Psychology Today has invited HDRF to create a blog for its website that highlights the latest developments in depression research for the general reader.

The goal is to make our groundbreaking research accessible and useful to people in their everyday lives.

Dr. Joshua Gordon at AspenBrainLab on the Future of Depression Treatment,
July 28, 2015

We’re pleased to inform you that HDRF Depression Task Force member Dr. Joshua Gordon of Columbia University spoke this Saturday at the Third Annual AspenBrainLab in Aspen, Colorado.

Dr. Gordon told an audience of 400 at the Aspen Institute’s Paepcke Auditorium about how the promising research of the HDRF Depression Task Force can change the way we view, diagnose and treat depression.

HDRF in Hamptons Magazine,
July 9, 2015

The July issue of Hamptons Magazine provides an inspiring tour of the Southampton garden of HDRF Founder and Chair Audrey Gruss.

“Renewed Hope” describes the glade of Lilies of the Valley planted in honor of Gruss’s mother Hope. The article also touches on the history and mission of Hope for Depression Research Foundation, also created in Hope’s memory. Warm thanks to author and longtime HDRF supporter Jamee Gregory.

We wish you a restful and happy summer season.

Founder’s Introduction,
June 24, 2015

My mother Hope suffered from depression for most of her late adult life. My sisters, father and I witnessed decades of misdiagnosis, trials of medication, troublesome side effects and the psychic pain and life-sapping loss of energy that is a mark of clinical depression.

When she passed away in December 2005, I vowed that I would do all in my power to help conquer this dreaded illness. That was the spark that started HDRF and led me on an incredible journey.