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Each year, thousands of participants come together at the Angus Barn in Raleigh to walk or run a 5K route to show solidarity for family, friends and community members living with a mental illness. Team UNC Psychiatry was 136 people strong this year and raised over $14,000 for our research...

The Carolyn and C. Richard Mattingly Leadership in Mental Health Care Award highlights the significance of mental health to the overall well-being of those living with cystic fibrosis and on the important work of researchers and care teams who address mental health as an integral part of specialized CF care.

Band Together was imagined by Triangle community leaders as a response to the tragedies of 9/11. The vision has evolved from raising funds to support international tragedies to raising funds and awareness with a special nonprofit partner every year. This year, fundraising benefits mental health here in the triangle! Dr....

The National Institutes of Mental Health awarded a $2.5-million grant to UNC School of Medicine researchers Adam Bryant Miller, PhD, and Andrea Pelletier-Baldelli, PhD, in the UNC Department of Psychiatry, to study the alarming rise of suicidal behavior in young girls.

In a small pilot study, UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Flavio Frohlich, PhD, used a new closed-loop system to measure the electrical brain patterns of individual patients and then stimulate those patterns with a weak electrical current, resulting in significantly improved symptoms of major depressive disorder

This week our acute telepsychiatry service leaders visited UNC Health Caldwell where they celebrated the one-year anniversary of launching the first virtual inpatient psychiatry unit. This terrific partnership and collaboration between UNC Health Caldwell Jonas Hill Hospital (Alicia Stanislaw and David Lowry), the UNC Health Virtual Care team (Jami Mann,...