UW Medicine Newsroom | October 27, 2020

Researcher Patricia Areán, PhD, is working with an app intended to gather data about symptoms; 5,500 people are enrolled so far.

Department news | April 30, 2020

Sarah Campbell, PhD, a VA Puget Sound Health Services Research & Development Post-Doctoral Fellow, recently received a VA Career Development Award from VA’s office of Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) to evaluate and refine a social support-enhancement intervention, and establish a protocol for routinely measuring social support to inform treatment, for Veterans with post-traumatic […]

Department news | April 30, 2020

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2020 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Small Grants Program aimed at advancing the clinical, educational, research, and/or advocacy missions of our department.

UW Population Health Initiative | April 30, 2020

The UW Population Health Initiative funded 21 COVID-19 rapid response grants including The Staying in Touch and Engaged Project (STEP) submitted by Seema Clifasefi, PhD, and colleagues, and the Washington State COVID-19 Pregnancy Collaborative submitted by Amritha Bhat, MD, MPH, and colleagues. 

The UW Daily | April 14, 2020

UW Medicine is recruiting volunteers to test a smartphone app that could potentially predict the next viral outbreak. The study is led by Patricia Areàn, PhD.

The Seattle Times | April 6, 2020

Schools are attempting to provide remote mental health support, a service that isn’t guaranteed even in the best of circumstances. Eric Bruns, PhD, comments on this unproven ground.

Memory & Brain Wellness Center | February 27, 2020

Debby Tsuang, MD, is leading a new study to find out if objective measures of sleep and movement patterns can effectively differentiate between people living with symptoms of probable Lewy Body Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. In the study subjects will wear an actigraphy monitor to capture walking pace, gait, distance covered, calorie burned and heart […]

UW Medicine Newsroom | January 22, 2020

Andrew Saxon, MD, is a co-author of a study that shows patient satisfactory with a new mobile app that enables them to upload videos of themselves taking buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid-use disorder.

CBS News | January 19, 2020

Ursula Whiteside, PhD, is quoted in an article that discusses how simple interventions, like a caring letter or text, can make a difference with a person contemplating suicide.

UW Medicine Newsroom | January 4, 2019

Russell Marx, and Kevin Coffey, PhD, researchers in the Neumaier Lab, are investigating rodent vocalizations in an effort to better understand how drugs change brain activity, and ultimately, to develop treatments for withdrawal from alcohol or opioids.