UW Medicine news | February 6, 2023
Research by Brian Kraemer and Pamela McMillan identifies tau interactions with RNA, the nucleic acid that serves as the blueprint molecule for all our cellular machines, as a key stage in the development of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia disorders.
UW News | January 23, 2023
A UW-led team including Dave Atkins, PhD, developed an AI system that suggested changes to participants’ responses to make them more empathetic. The researchers published their findings in Nature Machine Intelligence. Senior author Tim Althoff is funded by an Innovation Grant from the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions.
UW Office of Research | December 16, 2022
Marco Pravetoni, PhD, is featured by the UW Office of Research in their new New Researcher Spotlight series, focused on Neuroscience in January. Dr. Pravetoni’s team has identified promising vaccines against heroin, oxycodone, fentanyl, and their derivatives or combinations.
NIH Global Health Matters | December 1, 2022
In Nigeria—and in many places—young mothers feel social and self-stigma. BRiTE Center affiliate faculty member Lola Kola, PhD, developed a mobile app to help teen mothers care for their mental and physical health.
UW News | December 5, 2022
A team led by researchers at the University of Washington including Elaine Peskind, MD, has developed a laboratory test — known by the acronym SOBA — that can detect oligomers in the blood of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, but not in most members of a control group who showed no signs of cognitive impairment.
Department news | November 30, 2022
A new Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry (BNNP) Fellowship Program, a joint collaboration between the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Neurology, has been officially approved by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. Directed by Michael Schrift, DO, MA, FANPA, and Associate Program Director, Michael Persenaire, MD, this new fellowship will approach […]
UW Medicine newsroom | November 14, 2022
This year, 38 UW School of Medicine faculty members and scientists affiliated with UW Medicine have been named to the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers™ list. Among them is courtesy faculty member Cara Lewis.
The Huddle | November 23, 2022
The UW Medicine Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions is awarding over $1 million to develop and test innovative approaches to caring for adolescents and young adults with mental health and addiction problems. The focus on adolescent and young adult mental health was driven by the steadily increasing rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts in adolescents and young adults over the past decade.
Department news | October 27, 2022
Susan Ferguson, PhD, and Paul Phillips, PhD, are leading the development of the University of Washington Substantial Opportunities in Addiction Research (UW-SOAR) Doctoral Readiness Program.
Psychology Today | October 20, 2022
A new study published in Psychiatric Services by members of the BRiTE Center shows how AI natural language processing can detect cognitive disorders in texts as effectively as human clinicians. Authors include Justin Tauscher, PhD, MS, Ayesha Chander, MRes, Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI, and Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD. The work was supported by an innovation grant from the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions.
