The Atlantic | June 11, 2020
Suicides and overdoses among young adults were already skyrocketing before the pandemic started. Now experts fear that the situation is going to get even worse. Kate Comtois, MD, MPH, talks about Gen Z's view toward social media.
STAT | June 9, 2020
Roberto Montenegro, MD, PhD, who studies how perceived discrimination affects mental health, talks about how racism transcends social and economic disadvantages leading to worse health outcomes.
Psychology Today | June 7, 2020
There seems to be no getting away from the COVID-19 pandemic. We are being besieged by news stories about the enormous loss of life. But what about the long-term consequences to our mental health? An article published in JAMA Psychiatry by Mark Reger, PhD, is referenced.
The Seattle Times | June 4, 2020
UW Medicine administrators are weighing whether to move operations of the voluntary inpatient psychiatry unit at UW Medical Center into the geriatric psychiatry facility at UW Medical Center — Northwest. Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA, said putting the programs in one location could benefit patients.
The Urbanist | June 4, 2020
Kate Hoerster, PhD, and colleagues write that achieve true population health, well-being, and justice, the structures blocking free movement by Black Americans must be torn down.
ParentMap | June 1, 2020
Research conducted by Jason Kilmer, PhD, has demonstrated that the more a student uses marijuana, the more likely they are to experience academic struggles such as skipping classes, losing credits, having a lower GPA and taking longer to graduate from college.
Department news | May 31, 2020
We are delighted to announce that the Idaho Track of our department’s Psychiatry Residency Program will become a separate four-year psychiatry residency program based in Boise starting in July 2021! This means that we will have two psychiatry residency programs in our department – our existing Seattle-based program and the new UW Boise Psychiatry Residency. The […]
Department news | May 31, 2020
The Journal of the American Medical Association has named a powerful first-person essay by Roberto Montenegro, MD, PhD, one of the top pieces from the last 10 years in the journal’s ongoing “A Piece of My Mind” series. His essay, My Name is Not ‘Interpreter’, was published in May of 2016. The article has been reprinted […]
UW News | May 29, 2020
A team of scientists reports that differences in visual motion perception in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are accompanied by weaker neural “suppression” in the visual cortex of the brain. Jennifer Gerdts, PhD, is co-author on the paper.
CNN | May 29, 2020
The transition to working at home has been challenging for many adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, commonly called ADHD. Margaret Sibley, PhD, offers some perspective and advice.
