UW Columns | December 15, 2017
Warner Schaie, PhD, reflects on his time working with the Group Health Cooperative and the development of the Seattle Longitudinal Study, a 47-year effort which began in the 1950s that seeks to understand how people’s cognitive abilities change with age.
Right as Rain | December 15, 2017
Jesse Fann, MD, and Marc Avery, MD, explain why depression carries a big public health burden and how collaborative care can help.
UW Medicine Newsroom | December 13, 2017
In a commentary for Nature Human Behavior, Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, and David Atkins, PhD, said “the future of digital mental seems bright.”
New York Times | December 11, 2017
What does the child who can’t say goodbye to a parent without breaking down have in common with the child who is cripplingly terrified of dogs and the one who gets a bad stomach ache reliably on Monday morning? Christopher Varley, MD, is quoted.
KUOW | December 11, 2017
On Monday, the King County Council signaled a commitment to jailing fewer young people by ruling that an expert report written by Eric Trupin, PhD, should be used to guide county policy for reducing youth detention.
Right as Rain | December 8, 2017
Amanda Focht, MD, gives advice to introverts on how to have a holiday season that doesn’t completely suck the life out of you, including saying “yes” to events and parties even if you don’t feel like it.
UW Columns | December 7, 2017
The UW plays a major roll in fighting opioid addiction across the state. Richard Ries, MD, Mark Duncan, MD, and Kari Stephens, PhD, lead the UW Psychiatry and Addictions Case Conference (UW PACC) series, a weekly web-based conference that supports providers caring for patients with addictions and psychiatric problems.
BuzzFeed News | November 30, 2017
In the midst of an opioid epidemic, doctors are in a fierce debate over whether to stop medications for patients with chronic pain. Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD, and David Tauben, MD, weigh in.
Newsghana.com | November 30, 2017
Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, calls for the use of mobile apps to assess and treat patients with severe mental illness at the Third Public Lecture of the Ghana Psychological Association in Accra last month. The topic of his lecture was Technology and Mental Health Care; Providing Social Interventions to Communities.
Seattle Times Editorial | November 28, 2017
King County Executive Dow Constantine announced his intention to put juvenile detention under the umbrella of the county’s public-health department, a recommendation made in a report by Eric Trupin, PhD, filled with dozens of solid, research-based methods that can help reduce how many kids spend time in detention.
