Category: Research Publications

The richness of the AURORA study offered an opportunity to understand why racial/ethnic groups show differences in the prevalence of trauma-related disorders. We observed that Black participants show reduced depression and anxiety symptoms after trauma, despite greater burden of structural inequities, suggestive of psychological resilience to trauma. However, White participants...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial effect on the delivery of psychiatric healthcare. Inpatient psychiatric healthcare facilities have experienced outbreaks of COVID-19, making these areas particularly vulnerable.

Cortical morphology is altered in many psychiatric illness, though little is known about how cortical morphology is develops in early childhood and what factors contribute to it. In this twin study, we found that genetic factors play an important role early childhood development of the cortex.

There is a great need to improve access to mental health care for perinatal women. This includes task-sharing among mental health non-specialists, an emphasis on culturally sensitive care, web-based delivery of psychotherapy with some caveats, and a lifespan approach to perinatal mental health. Innovative research efforts are seeking to validate...

Barriers and facilitators to implementing the HEADSS psychosocial screening tool for adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in teen club program in Malawi: health care providers perspectives.

Among 149 women with breast cancer, 40% reported at least mild depression and 52% reported at least mild anxiety at the end of chemotherapy. These mental health symptoms at the end of chemotherapy were predictive of future prescriptions for psychiatric medications in the first several years after treatment.

This work identifies lasting behavioral changes and adaptations in glutamatergic targets in the insular cortex and BNST following a stressor exposure and a role for mGlu3 signaling in some of these changes.

This study examined the degree to which a prior history of depression and PTSD influenced the development of these outcomes in a cohort of individuals (n=1306) presenting to the emergency department after a new index trauma (motor vehicle collision). A prior history of these disorders were dominant risk factors for...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of an online self-compassion intervention for transgender adolescents, with the aim of improving mental health. Participants identified as transgender or gender expansive, were between the ages of 13 and 17, and lived in the U.S. or...

Results suggest that childhood sexual abuse is associated with significant HPA axis changes that are associated with accelerated epigenetic aging. Implications for biological embedding models of early life adversity and adult outcomes are discussed.