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We’re hiring! Clinical Trials Director

August 26, 2024
We are seeking a physician-researcher with significant experience in successfully leading clinical trials in mood and anxiety disorders. The successful candidate will serve in a leadership role with the UNC Clinical Research Alliance (CRA). This individual must have direct experience conducting sponsored clinical research and experience with federal and/or industry research sponsors...

Is Play Therapy Right for Your Child? Dr. Napier speaks with UNC Health Talk

August 13, 2024

UNC Health Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Prestwick Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

August 8, 2024
UNC Health Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Prestwick Ribbon Cutting Ceremony August 7th celebrated all of the hard work that has gone into opening this central location for all of our child psychiatry programs, located at 194 Finley Golf Course Road, Suite 200, Chapel Hill.

Congratulations! Dr. Tamara Baker elected VP/P of the Gerontological Society of America Congratulations!

August 8, 2024
She was chosen by GSA’s membership, which consists of more than 5,500 researchers, educators, and practitioners. Dr. Baker’s term as President begins January 1, 2025.

Diagnostic Accuracy of an Integrated AI Tool to Estimate Gestational Age From Blind Ultrasound Sweeps

August 5, 2024
A deep learning AI model was developed to estimate gestational age (GA) from blind ultrasonography sweeps and incorporated into a low-cost, battery-powered device, aiming to improve pregnancy care in low-resource settings. The study found that novice users, with no prior sonography training, could estimate GA with the AI tool as...

Schizophrenia genomics: genetic complexity and functional insights

August 5, 2024
Determining the causes of schizophrenia has been a notoriously intractable problem, resistant to a multitude of investigative approaches over centuries. In recent decades, genomic studies have delivered hundreds of robust findings that implicate nearly 300 common genetic variants (via genome-wide association studies) and more than 20 rare variants (via whole-exome...

Impact of Cognitive Rehabilitation on Cognitive and Functional Outcomes in Adult Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review

August 5, 2024
This is review, led by Dr. Nakamura and in collaboration with an international working group, is the most comprehensive review to date of cognitive rehabilitation interventions to improve cognitive difficulties and daily function in patients with cancer.

From Rhetoric to Action: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and inclusion in Coordinated Specialty Care for Early Psychosis

August 5, 2024
This Open Forum argues that marginalization and disparities in early psychosis research and clinical care are interrelated, and the authors provide suggestions for paths forward. Commitment to equity and justice demands recentering the perspectives of those most affected by early psychosis services and investing in the integration of historically excluded...

Reasons for Discharge in a National Network of Early Psychosis Intervention Programs

August 5, 2024
Analyzing 1787 discharges from the Early Psychosis Intervention Network (EPINET), a NIMH national network of >100 Coordinated Specialty Care programs for individuals with early psychosis, we estimated that only 20-30% of participants completed early psychosis programing. Completion rate is positively associated with age on admission, time in education, employment, or...

Researchers Highlight the Genetic Complexity of Schizophrenia

August 2, 2024