KUOW | May 13, 2025
Nathan Sackett, MD's trial is the first to look at whether psilocybin-assisted therapy can help people who suffer from both post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol use disorder.
Research & Innovation
CSTP awards over $180K in research funding to trainees
Department News | May 14, 2025
We are pleased to announce our third year of Trainee Research Awards, part of the Clinician Scientist Training Program (CSTP). These awards support the development of clinician scientists and provide funding and faculty support for trainees to participate in mentored research.
JAMA podcast: Effective components of collaborative care for depression
Department News | April 30, 2025
Department Chair Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA contributed to a large multi-national metaanalysis of collaborative care for depression that was recently published in JAMA Psychiatry. Dr. Unützer represented the international research team and presented the findings in a thoughtful and engaging conversation with host Dr. John Torres. You can listen to the episode here .
Research shows interest in mobile health among sexual trauma survivors in Ghana
Department News | April 30, 2025
Sexual violence against vulnerable populations is common worldwide and many survivors of sexual assault experience long-term mental health difficulties. A recent study led by Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD evaluated sexual violence exposure among women with mental illness in Ghana and examined their readiness to engage in mobile health (mHealth) interventions.
New Department Research Council launching in 2025
Department News | April 30, 2025
We are soliciting interest from early career and established research faculty to join our soon to be established Department Research Council. The goal of the council will be to provide a dedicated forum to address challenges and opportunities related to the research mission of the department.
One of the country’s leading Alzheimer’s projects is in jeopardy of drying up
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.
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!
