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Are Antidepressants Safe to Use When You’re Pregnant? Dr. Julia Riddle speaks with Everyday Health

September 30, 2025
About 1 in 5 women experience depression at some point during pregnancy and in the year after giving birth, known as perinatal mood and anxiety disorder (PMAD). Antidepressant use during pregnancy isn’t a question of “safe versus unsafe,” but about balancing the risks of untreated depression with the risks of...

Welcome Holly Babbitt, MD!

September 29, 2025

UNC Physicians Develop Fast Treatment to Ease Depression in Pregnant and Postpartum Women

September 29, 2025

Welcome Cherry Hitt, LCSW, LCAS, MSW

September 24, 2025

Welcome Jessica Janos, PhD!

September 17, 2025

Dr. Walsh honored with 2025 Simons Foundation Fellows-to-Faculty Award

September 17, 2025
This award provides transition funding at the end of her postdoctoral training to support the move into a tenure-track faculty position and includes a $600,000 three-year faculty research grant. Melissa Walsh, Ph.D., is currently a research trainee in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

Welcome Andrew Adorno, DO to our virtual care team!

September 16, 2025

New UNC-GIFTS Partnership Brings Mental Health Services to Granville County Students

August 12, 2025
Chapel Hill, N.C. — August 12, 2025 — The UNC Department of Psychiatry’s IMPACTT-NC program (Improving Adolescent Child health Through Telepsychiatry in NC) and UNC Children’s is proud to announce the launch of UNC-GIFTS — a collaborative partnership with Granville County Public Schools and Granville Vance Public Health — aimed...

Welcome, Dr. Shonali Saha!

August 8, 2025

Welcome Shanika Paylor, LCMHC!

August 7, 2025