Department News | December 30, 2025
The National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) and the School Mental Health Research Summit Planning Committee have selected Aaron Lyon, PhD as the recipient of the 2025 School Mental Health Research Award!
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Community-Based Integrated Care Fellowship team receives Innovations in Education Award
Department News | December 30, 2025
We’re proud to announce that our Community-Based Integrated Care Fellowship team received the Stoudemire Innovations in Education Award at the year’s Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) meeting in San Antonio, TX.
UW Medicine program helps primary care providers treat mental health
Seattle Times | December 23, 2025
“In internal and family medicine, they get very minimal exposure to mental health treatment, but they’re managing that the most. So this is to give them tools,” says Ramanpreet Toor, MD.
Top five self-care tips every caregiver should know
Right as Rain | December 22, 2025
“One of the major struggles that caretakers face is that the caretaking role often pushes all of the other parts of your identity down,” says Koriann Cox, PhD.
Why Native Americans are facing high rates of mental decline
PBS News | December 8, 2025
"There are a number of things that can lead to memory impairment besides Alzheimer's disease that are also prevalent in those communities," says Thomas Grabowski, MD.
Why are ADHD rates on the rise?
Scientific American | December 6, 2025
The rise in awareness and diagnoses of ADHD has fueled a public debate about how it should be viewed and how best to provide support. Margaret Sibley, PhD is interviewed.
A fentanyl vaccine is about to get its first major test
Wired | December 3, 2025
Marco Pravetoni, PhD says the injectable antibody his company is developing is meant to provide monthlong protection against overdose.
Brain’s ‘plumbing’ inspires new Alzheimer’s strategies — and controversial surgeries
Science Magazine | December 2, 2025
Fluid clearance has implications not just for Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, and Parkinson’s, but also stroke, headache, traumatic brain injury and probably mood disorders, says Jeff Iliff, PhD.
ADHD diagnoses are growing. What’s going on?
Nature | November 26, 2025
Info online connects with some people who have had symptoms but never understood what they were, says Margaret Sibley, PhD. That leads them to seek help, pushing diagnoses up.
Paul Borghesani named Chief of Service for Psychiatry at Harborview
Department News | November 26, 2025
It is with great pleasure we announce that after a committee search, Paul Borghesani, MD, PhD has been approved by the Medical Executive Board and Board of Trustees as the Chief of Service for Psychiatry at Harborview Medical Center.
