What services are provided by the Mood Disorders Centre?
We have a 15-bed inpatient unit dedicated to mood disorders (Mood Disorders Clinical and Research Unit, Ward East 1, UBC Hospital), and an active outpatient clinic (Mood Disorders Clinic) that focuses on consultations – single-visit assessments and treatment recommendations – of adult patients. Within the clinic, we have programs for seasonal depression (seasonal affective disorder), first episode mania, and treatment-resistant mood disorders. We follow a limited number of patients for brief management (2-3 months), usually in clinical research protocols. The focus of expertise in the MDC is on medication management, but we also provide limited short-term group cognitive behavioural therapy for suitable patients. We conduct a number of research studies on the biology of mood disorders, outcomes in depression and bipolar disorder, brain imaging studies of mania and depression, clinical treatment trials, biological and clinical effects of light on mood, genetic studies, group psychothera
