Right as Rain | January 25, 2023
“Healthy weight” can be a charged term. Courtesy faculty member Megan Riddle, MD, PhD, MS, talks about how weight cycling -- losing and then regaining weight -- can harm your metabolism and increase your disease risk.
UW News | January 23, 2023
A UW-led team including Dave Atkins, PhD, developed an AI system that suggested changes to participants’ responses to make them more empathetic. The researchers published their findings in Nature Machine Intelligence. Senior author Tim Althoff is funded by an Innovation Grant from the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions.
UW Medicine newsroom | January 13, 2023
The UW Center for Mental Health, Policy and the Law, in collaboration with the UW SPIRIT Lab is working to make cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for psychosis accessible throughout Washington state.
KUOW | January 11, 2023
Postdoctoral fellow Katherine Walukevich-Dienst, PhD, offers practical advice on how a "Dry January" can benefit you, including everything from sleeping better to saving money.
CMHPL | January 10, 2023
The CBT Care Pathway team led by Sarah Kopelovich, PhD, is working to make cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for psychosis accessible throughout Washington state.
The Guardian | January 7, 2023
The lack of clear practice guidelines for treating adult ADHD means practitioners can't be held accountable for questionable prescriptions, says Margaret Sibley, PhD.
NBC News | January 6, 2023
Emily Dworkin, PhD, talks about “frozen shock phase” and tonic immobility, a paralysis-like state in which major responses to a threat can get shut down.
The Guardian | January 1, 2023
Age-related cognitive decline is not inevitable. Those who stay mentally engaged through work, volunteering or learning new skills might raise the chances of staying sharp in very old age, according to courtesy faculty member Joyce Shaffer.
Department news | December 31, 2022
Debra Morrison, Senior Project Manager and Practice Coach at the AIMS Center is retiring after seven years of work at the AIMS Center and a wonderful career in community health care that spanned over three decades.
Department news | December 31, 2022
A new one-year psychiatry fellowship for advanced nurse practitioners (ARNPs) received a boost with a $6.6 million grant from Premera Blue Cross.
