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Balancing the Roles of Clinicians and Police in Separating Firearms from People in a Dangerous Mental Health Crisis: Legal Rules, Policy Tools, and Ethical Considerations

June 6, 2023
As our country aims to implement measures to decrease suicide, of which over half are due to firearms, we explore the role of ERPO (Extreme Risk Protection Order) laws to temporarily remove guns from individuals at elevated risk.

Distinct nonlinear spectrotemporal integration in primary and secondary auditory cortices

June 6, 2023
We have discovered distinct roles for the primary (A1) and secondary (A2) auditory cortices in the extraction of complex sound features: specifically, frequency modulation is extracted by A1, while A2 encodes the concurrent multifrequency spectrum.

All Hands on Deck: We Need Multiple Approaches To Uncover the Neuroscience behind the Opioid Overdose Crisis

June 6, 2023
In this perspective we discuss pre-clinical models of opioid use disorder and argue that we need to consider multiple models to fully understand the human condition.

Probing different paradigms of morphine withdrawal on sleep behavior in male and female C57BL/6J mice

June 6, 2023
In this paper we investigated sleep behavior, and patterns in mouse models of opioid use disorder. We investigated sleep behavior also following a sleep deprivation experiment in the same mice after a week of forced abstinence.

Receptive Language Abilities for Females Exposed to Early Life Adversity: Modification by Epigenetic Age Acceleration at Midlife in a 30-Year Prospective Cohort Study.

June 6, 2023
The effects of trauma (childhood sexual abuse) on rate of cognitive decline. The results indicate that epigenetic age acceleration has the potential to serve as a biomarker for cognitive decline in patients with a child maltreatment history or psychiatric disorders

Welcome Shouqiang Ye!

June 6, 2023

Dr. Cynthia Bulik speaks with The New York Times about Binge Eating Disorder

June 5, 2023

Congratulations Drs. Malloy, Kasera and Li on your Academy of Educators Awards!

June 2, 2023
It is a great pleasure to share the terrific news that we have 3 faculty members who received important teaching awards last evening at the UNC SOM Academy of Educators (AOE) Alan Cross Evening of Scholarship event. Dr. Surabhi Kasera won the Application/Individualization Phase Clinical Preceptor Excellence in Teaching Award Dr....

Christian Hendershot, PhD explains to CNN Health the potential secondary benefits of drugs like Ozempic

June 2, 2023

New Psychiatric Program to Serve Military Members and Civilians in Southeastern North Carolina: Dr. Jonny Gerkin said that he is grateful and proud to contribute to the development and implementation of this project

May 26, 2023