Department news | October 31, 2016

A new NIH-funded study led by Gail Li and Leanne Sheppard (Environmental Health) provides an extraordinary opportunity to develop comprehensive new insights into the effects of air pollution on the aging brain using state-of-the-art exposure science and neuropathological biomarkers. Findings from the study will advance understanding of the role of multifactorial time-varying exposures on brain health in […]

Department news | October 31, 2016

Greg Reger, a VA-based faculty member, led a research team that published a randomized trial of prolonged exposure and virtual reality exposure in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. This study represents the first randomized trial studying the efficacy of an individual evidence-based practice for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with active duty U.S. military personnel, and […]

Department news | October 31, 2016

The BRiTE Center recently received a competitive renewal grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to implement a clinical support software tool that uses speech signal processing and computational models - instead of human judgment - to evaluate motivational interviewing (MI) for alcohol and substance use problems.

Department news | October 31, 2016

A special issue of Brain Research commemorated its 50th anniversary by including a sampling of the most heavily cited papers from each of the five decades of the journal’s life. Dianne Lattemann’s paper, “Expression of receptors for insulin and leptin in the ventral tegmental area/substantia nigra (VTA/SN) of the rat,” was one of the papers included. It was published […]

Department news | September 30, 2016

This year’s recipient of the Joseph Becker Research Award is Christopher DeCou, an Adult Track resident in the Psychology Internship Program. The award stimulates quality research by rewarding a psychology resident for independence, creativity and intellectual depth in a research effort. Christopher’s research broadly examines the potential mediators of the association between sexual assault severity, PTSD […]

Department news | September 30, 2016

John Neumaier chaired the 2016 International Society for Serotonin Research, “Serotonin in Seattle,” from July 24-27 at the Edgewater Hotel. He was ably assisted by Goldie Pontrelli and Mary Pyper from the Department in organizing the logistics of the conference. More than 170 serotonin researchers from five continents convened and discussed cutting edge research that involved psychiatric, basic neuroscience, and […]

Department news | September 30, 2016

The School Mental Health Assessment, Research, & Training (SMART) Center directed by Aaron Lyon recently received two grants from the Institute of Education Sciences, the primary research funding arm of the US Department of Education. Totaling $4.7M, these awards account for 1/6th of the total awards given this year under the IES “Social and Behavioral Context for […]

Department news | June 30, 2016

Eric Hawkins, a psychologist at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, recently received a VA HSR&D, Merit Review Pilot grant to study the feasibility, acceptability and usability of a smartphone-based mobile application for self-management of unhealthy alcohol use among Iraq/Afghanistan Veterans in the community. The mobile application under study, Step Away, is designed to […]