Category: Research Publications

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...

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...

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...

This article reviews what is known about the developing visual system in ASD in the first years of life; it also explores the potential canalizing role that atypical visual system maturation may have in the emergence of ASD by placing findings in the context of developmental cascades involving brain development,...

Alcohol drinking that persists despite negative consequences is a core feature of alcohol use disorder (AUD). Here we investigate whether individual variability in this behavior are due to extended alcohol exposure or pre-existing differences in rats.

In this manuscript we used a mouse model of dementia that harbors a human mutation in the tau protein. We found that neurons that are lost in Alzheimer’s Disease (locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons) have reduced function as compared to their age matched controls.

We developed an explainable AI model that analyzes 3D CBCT scans to automatically classify and measure upper airway obstruction caused by adenoid hypertrophy in children. This tool provides clinicians with clear visual explanations and accurate assessments to support diagnosis and treatment planning.

Factors identified with a higher odds of leaving outpatient psychiatric care during COVID-19 included demographic (male sex, uninsured (self-pay) status), behavioral (inactive patient health portal), and diagnostic (anxiety and trauma stressor disorders, pervasive and specific developmental disorders, and disorders of childhood) factors. These results highlight that the reasons patients left...

Our women’s mood disorders group produced this case series on our experience treating patients with zuranolone for severe postpartum depression with suicidality.

Estrogen treatment during menopause increased right hippocampal volumes in women without depression.