NBC News | April 13, 2025
According to Tom Grabowski, MD many newer Alzheimer's drugs are at some point funded by NIH in the developmental stages. So if you take away NIH funding, this whole pipeline to therapy will go away.
Research & Innovation
Panel calls for improved psychiatric care in African prisons
UW Medicine Newsroom | April 16, 2025
Recommended reforms focus on providing basic services during incarceration and continuing community care after release. Lydia Chwastiak, MD, MPH and Sarah Walker, PhD, MS are authors on the study.
TikTok is full of advice – just don’t trust it for a diagnosis
NPR | March 24, 2025
Margaret Sibley, PhD welcomes novel ideas coming from places like TikTok. She believes that researchers should listen with an open mind - and then rigorously study what holds up.
Don’t believe everything you see about ADHD on TikTok
New York Times | March 19, 2025
The information on TikTok "doesn't always tell you the full story, and it can also lead the loudest voices to be overrepresented," says Margaret Sibley, PhD.
CPDD Awards in Excellence: Innovator Award
Department News | March 15, 2025
Congratulations to Marco Pravetoni, PhD, winner of the 2025 College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) Innovator Award!
New behavioral health building planned for Harborview Medical Center
Department News | March 15, 2025
King County has procured a 1.6 acre site adjacent to the Harborview Medical Center campus to support the growth, consolidation, and colocation of Harborview's behavioral health services, which are a critical source of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services in Washington State.
New study: eHaRT-A project will test telehealth treatment for people who use alcohol
Department News | March 15, 2025
Based on the HaRRT Center’s Harm Reduction Treatment for Alcohol (HaRT-A) study, eHaRT-A will use innovative methods to adapt this in-person intervention into a telehealth platform that can then be tested within Downtown Emergency Services Center (DESC), permanent supportive housing facilities around Seattle.
Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions 4th Annual Meeting
Department News | March 15, 2025
The Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions celebrated five years of improving brain health during its 4th Annual Meeting on March 7, 2025, at UW Medicine South Lake Union.
NTAP explores psychedelic-assisted treatments
The Daily | March 5, 2025
“I felt pretty frustrated by the limits of our treatments, and so I was hoping to explore other options in terms of potential treatments,” says Nathan Sackett, MD, MS.
Clinical trial to begin enrollment: Assessing safety of psilocybin for military veterans and first responders
Department News | January 30, 2025
The Center for Novel Therapeutics in Addiction Psychiatry is on track to start enrolling participants in a clinical trial assessing the safety, risk, and benefits of psilocybin for treating military veterans and first responders who have both posttraumatic stress disorder and alcohol use disorder.
