BuzzFeedNews | January 31, 2016
Bryan King, MD, comments on a new study that highlights serious problems in how drug companies collect and report side effects.
BuzzFeedNews | January 31, 2016
Bryan King, MD, comments on a new study that highlights serious problems in how drug companies collect and report side effects.
Psychiatric News | January 29, 2016
Roger Vilardaga, PhD, is developing an evidence-based, easy to use mobile app to help patients with serious mental illness quit smoking.
NPR | January 26, 2016
Evette Ludman, PhD, discusses the newly released recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to screen for depression during and after pregnancy.
UWToday | January 15, 2016
Department faculty members Brian Saelens, PhD, and the late Wayne Katon, MD, are included among “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” for 2015.
The Whole U | January 14, 2016
Pat Areán, PhD, talks about the science behind mobile apps, like video games, that can improve mood, cognition, and social functioning.
U.S.News and World Report | January 13, 2016
UW Psychiatrist Elaine Peskind, MD, discusses the correlation between the severity of traumatic brain injury and the amount of explosions experienced, and what these injuries look like neurologically and socially.
The Seattle Times | January 13, 2016
A new study authored by a team of brain injury experts from the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and UW Medicine, including Elaine Peskind, MD, and James Meabon, MD, shows the cerebellum becomes increasingly damaged the more blasts veterans are exposed to.
Medscape | January 7, 2016
A new Psychiatric Services paper reports on the challenges and benefits psychiatrists and patients experience in an integrated care model. First author Kathyrn Norfleet, MD, an ACGME fellow in the Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship program, is quoted.
Department news | December 31, 2015
The UW School of Medicine’s addictions programs have done it again. For the fourth year in a row, US News and World Report ranked UW Medicine as a top 10 medical school for drug and alcohol abuse programs, coming in at #10. Four west coast schools made the top ten list with Harvard University ranking […]
Department news | December 31, 2015
Our new Perinatal Psychiatry Consultation Line led by Deb Cowley allows any health care provider in Washington State to receive consultation, recommendations, and referrals to community resources from a UW psychiatrist with expertise in perinatal mental health. Modeled after the successful child psychiatry telehealth PAL program, faculty members consult on any mental health-related questions for […]