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Connection Learning Healthcare System Hub of the Early Psychosis Intervention Network: Program and Participant Characteristics

May 8, 2025
Connection Learning Healthcare System, one of the eight hubs of the National Institute of Mental Health funded Early Psychosis Intervention Network, supports uniform data collection, analysis, feedback and infrastructure development to promote a culture of continuous quality improvement across 25 Coordinated Specialty Care programs serving young people experiencing first episode...

Longitudinal Associations Between Peritraumatic Oestradiol and Fear Responding in Women and Men

May 8, 2025
Fluctuations in sex hormones may impact risk for PTSD, as estradiol has been shown to influence PTSD severity and biomarkers of PTSD. Using the AURORA data, we were able to examine how estradiol levels at the time of the trauma were associated with changes in autonomic function and fear learning...

Multi-level socioeconomic modifiers of the comorbidity of post-traumatic stress and tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis use: the importance of income

May 8, 2025
Post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms and substance use behaviors commonly co-occur after a traumatic event. However, whether individual-, household-, or neigborhood-level factors impact this relationship is understudied due to lack of data on long-term outcomes and geographic variability in samples. From the Advancing Understanding of RecOvery afteR traumA (AURORA) study, we...

Social Buffering of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Longitudinal Effects and Neural Mediators

May 8, 2025
In the context of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), there are few studies which explore how social support mitigates stress symptoms within the acute post-trauma time frame. Our study aims to explore the neural basis of social buffering in trauma recovery. Importantly, social support is a low cost and low risk...

Sex Differences in Response Inhibition-Related Neural Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Civilians With Recent Trauma

May 8, 2025
This study explores sex differences in neural activation during response inhibition and how these differences relate to the development and progression of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after recent trauma. It found that females with lower activation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex during inhibition were more likely to develop severe PTSD...

Making Correctional Health Care Education Integral to Health Care Training

May 8, 2025
Health care for incarcerated individuals remains an underserved area with poor health outcomes compared to the general public. The authors summarize the history of structural inequities within the correctional system; discuss the impact of incarceration on individual, family, and community health; and suggest methods to expand didactic curricula and direct...

Welcome Dr. Ling Beisecker!

May 8, 2025
Welcome Dr. Ling Beisecker! She is a Clinical Instructor working within the Taking Care of Our Own program. In this role, she support the mental health and well-being of medical students through individual care, wellness programming, and systems-level advocacy. Her professional interests are at the intersection of physical and mental...

My Eating Disorder Made Pregnancy Almost Impossible—and It’s Still Messing With Me Postpartum, Dr. Emily Pisetsky discusses Baby Blues and Eating Disorders with SELF.

April 30, 2025

Even Low-Key Exercise Is Fantastic for Your Brain, Dr. Patrick Smith speaks with Everyday Health about the Benefits of Exercise on your Mental Health

April 30, 2025

Welcome Ashley Freuler PhD, LCMHC-A!

April 29, 2025