Department news | September 30, 2017
Psychiatry faculty participated in 21 of 60 applications submitted to the inaugural UW Population Health Initiative (PHI) call for pilot proposals, either as lead investigator or co-investigator. Of the five proposals selected for funding, two involved Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty. The PHI provides up to $50,000 per pilot, augmented by matching funds from some […]
Department news | June 30, 2017
A special issue of Depression and Anxiety, edited by Pat Areán, PhD, and Pim Cuijpers, PhD, (Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands), aims to update the reader on the latest clinical advances in mobile technology and mental health.
Department news | June 30, 2017
Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, has joined Dave Atkins, PhD, as Co-Director of the Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRiTE) Center.
Department news | May 31, 2017
The Network of Experts in Implementation Science (NExIS) is a great way to network and learn about implementation research from experts in the greater Seattle area. Lydia Chwastiak, MD, MPH, and Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, among others, presented their current work at the most recent meeting to over thirty faculty and trainees, generating discussion and interest among colleagues. […]
Department news | May 31, 2017
The Bernier Lab had an amazing presence at the 2017 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) in San Francisco, CA, with thirteen lab members presenting posters and panel discussions. Highlights include a presentation by Caitlin Hudac, PhD (post-doc) on dynamic patterns of attention in children with rare SCN2A genetic variants, and a talk by Rachel Earl (5th […]
Department news | May 31, 2017
Molly Adrian, PhD, and Aaron Lyon, PhD, have received funding from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to examine the extent to which student-generated social media data provide the information needed to accurately predict suicide risk in high schoolers, compared to more traditional paper-and-pencil screening approaches.
Department news | April 30, 2017
The MInD-I (Maternal-Infant Dyad Implementation) project, led by Ian Bennett, MD, PhD, and Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, (co- PI) and funded through a five-year National Institute of Mental Health (1R01MH108548-01) grant, is testing the effectiveness of a novel implementation strategy — longitudinal remote consultation (LRC) — to improve the implementation effectiveness of collaborative care for perinatal depression. […]
Department news | April 30, 2017
John Neumaier, MD, PhD, just received a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the direct and indirect output pathways from a small but critical region in the brain underlying functional adaptations in cocaine addiction. His application received a perfect score and according to the reviewers, “there was enthusiastic support […]
Department news | March 31, 2017
The Seattle Children’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine is at the cutting edge of developing interventions to address the needs of adolescents who engage in high risk behaviors that reflect poor problem solving and emotional control. However, access to hospital and clinic-based mental health interventions is limited, and most youth who need such services […]
Department news | March 31, 2017
Jesse Fann, MD, MPH, and Jeanne Hoffman, PhD, (UW professor of Rehabilitation Medicine) received $12.7 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), an independent nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, to conduct new research on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Each year, about 3.5 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the United States, and at least […]
