UW News | August 6, 2025
A team of researchers including Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD found that explicitly biased chatbots often try to persuade users by shifting how they frame topics.
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Helping youth thrive means moving beyond incarceration
UW Medicine Newsroom | July 28, 2025
A study published in The American Journal of Public Health highlighted best practices in the closing of youth detention facilities. Study author Ben Danielson, MD talks about the findings.
Four things to do if you can’t get your ADHD medication
Right as Rain | July 23, 2025
Margaret Sibley, PhD says to first talk with your doctor. “If you can’t get your medication, let them know immediately so that a plan for managing your ADHD without the typical medication can be created.”
Mental health research in the Department of Veterans Affairs
JAMA Psychiatry | July 23, 2025
Mark Reger, PhD and Miriam Smyth examine the rationale for a mental health reserach program in the VA given the current contraction phase of the executive branch.
Medicaid cuts are likely to worsen mental health care in rural America
Stateline | July 22, 2025
“The folks who are having the most difficulty managing their lives - and that’s made worse by having depression or substance use disorder - are going to be the folks most likely to drop off,” says Ian Bennett, MD, PhD.
FDA panel rejects brexpiprazole-sertraline combo for PTSD
Medscape | July 22, 2025
Clinicians are not convinced of the efficacy of the combination given the conflicting data. It would be “hard to translate the confusing contradictory datasets to my clinical practice,” says Murray Raskind, MD.
New report describes Ukraine’s “stolen generation”
KUOW | July 21, 2025
This segment highlights the psychological trauma experienced by children in Ukraine due to the ongoing war. It features Eric Trupin, PhD who has been using poetry to help young people precess their emotions.
Children are safer when families are supported, not separated
Seattle Times | July 16, 2025
In this op-ed, Susan Stoner, PhD and Jim Walsh write bout the impending impacts of budget cuts on the safety of children and what policymakers should and shouldn't do to protect them.
Veterans with less-than-honorable discharges face elevated suicide risk
U.S. Medicine | July 15, 2025
The character of a servicemember's discharge may carry serious consequences for their long-term mental health, according to a new study led by Mark Reger, PhD.
How Trump’s Medicaid work requirements could affect mental health care
Seattle Times | July 14, 2025
Some clinicians think Medicaid decisions could be made more specifically based on a person’s diagnosis. Sarah Kopelovich, PhD is concerned the rules won't account for people whose conditions are not linear.
