Associated Press | October 7, 2024
Jeff Iliff, PhD who helped pioneer waste-clearance research, is looking for ways to measure glymphatic function and test if better sleep or other treatments might spur waste clearance.
Research & Innovation
New grant! Growing a Tribal Healing Effort Through Research (GATHER)
Department News | September 30, 2024
With this new, $3 million grant, the UW Seven Directions team will serve as one of four core technical assistance and training hubs supporting the documentation and monitoring of tribal research grants focused on substance use, mental health, and pain management.
AIMS Center 20th Anniversary Celebration
Department News | September 30, 2024
At the AIMS Center, we were thrilled to celebrate our 20th Anniversary with friends and colleagues in September. For the past two decades, we’ve supported diverse healthcare organizations in integrating behavioral health services into medical settings.
SMART Center 10th Anniversary Celebration
Department News | September 30, 2024
The SMART Center capped off a months-long celebration of its 10-year anniversary with a joyful evening event on September 12th at the UW Center for Urban Horticulture.
Debut event: Innovations in Addressing Substance Use and Addiction
Department News | September 30, 2024
Innovations in Addressing Substance Use and Addiction was a first ever, full-day event to showcase the department’s efforts to tackle our region’s challenges with addiction and substance use disorders.
Climate change can impact mental health. See how you can help someone struggling
Augusta Chronicle | September 11, 2024
Climate change and mental health intersect in many different ways at different levels, says Emily Schutzenhofer, MD, MPH, and individuals may experience distress in a way that's unique to them.
Drug deaths decline across the country but not in WA. What could be behind the change?
Spokesman-Review | September 25, 2024
Perhaps the most likely reason for fewer deaths nationally, according to Caleb Banta-Green, PhD, MPH, is that growth in new users has slowed because so many current users have died.
Electroconvulsive therapy is not what you think it is
Right as Rain | September 18, 2024
Randall Espinoza, MD, MPH and Brandon Thomas, MD, PhD talk about two effective neuromodulation therapies, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
Washington state’s cannabis industry braces for change as federal reclassification considered
King 5 | September 17, 2024
Susan Ferguson, PhD, who has felt hamstrung by outdated federal regulation on cannabis, says the new change "can't come soon enough."
Does text therapy really work?
TIME | September 3, 2024
Research by Michael Pullman, PhD and others has found that text and teletherapy are equally good at releiving symptoms of anxiety and depression over the course of three months.
