The Department’s Posttraumatic and Acute Trauma Treatment Program (PTATT) came into existence in October 2021 for the purpose of providing expert treatment for children, adults, and families struggling active symptoms of trauma including those that have been brought on during or because of the COVID 19 pandemic.  PTATT’s seven part time clinicians have undergone extensive … Read more

Although prior work has looked at how the brain responds to threats after trauma, very little research has looked at brain regions that process visual information about potential threats. In our recent manuscript in Translational Psychiatry, we leveraged the largest dataset of recent trauma survivors and 8 separate types of information multimodal magnetic resonance imaging … Read more

This trainee-led study used a large health registry to evaluate differences in quality of life and healthcare satisfaction among advanced cancer patients with and without minor children. Patients with minor children reported lower quality of life, higher mental distress, and lower satisfaction with their healthcare.

This is the first study describing longitudinal changes in patient-reported cognition in patients with multiple myeloma. Several potentially intervenable factors, including physical function impairment and depression, were associated with worse cognition at study entry, but only baseline cognitive impairment and education level were predictive of future cognitive decline.

We surveyed mothers with a history of perinatal depression from June 2020 to January 2022 to assess their depressive and anxious symptoms throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that local COVID-19 case rates and pandemic restrictions were not associated with symptoms, but prior severe perinatal depression, high stress, and feeling a lack of control were … Read more