Dr. Robert G. Robinson, Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Univ. Iowa Hospital, author/editor of 10 books and 360 research publications, will be giving a series of four, one-hour lectures during the month of February on “Depression in Late Life”. The lectures will be at the Venice Presbyterian Church in the sanctuary beginning February 4 at 2 PM. There is no charge and the public is invited.

February 4: Feeling blue? Is it normal or a disorder?

February 11: Bipolar disorder. How it differs from depression. The types and causes of treatment and its association with creativity.

February 18: Association of late life depression with physical illness and environment and effects on physical illness.

February 25: Treatment on late life depression. Types of treatments from social and behavioral therapies to medications. Newest types of magnetic or electrical  brain stimulation. Latest developments in deep brain stimulation.