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A recent news story featured research from Adam Bryant Miller, PhD, associate professor in the UNC Department of Psychiatry, examining suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children as young as 5 years old. While suicidal thoughts in young children are uncommon, Dr. Miller’s work challenges the long-held belief that children under...

The collaborative care model (CoCM) of integrated behavioral health has a strong evidence base, yet uptake of CoCM billing is reported to be minimal. This study aimed to examine the frequency and length of CoCM treatment among commercially insured individuals.

This study established benchmarks for clinically significant change for the Moral Injury Outcome Scale (MIOS) using national data from Veterans treated in U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) behavioral health settings.

This scoping review looks at the availability of literature addressing psychiatric genomics in Latin American populations. The review found only 52 papers considering Latin American populations in functional genomics research of psychiatric disorders, presenting the opportunity to improve the research by diversifying included populations.

This clinical commentary highlights the potential for wearable devices to function not merely as measurement tools but as interpretive systems that shape identity appraisal and mental health during the perinatal transition.

People that experience prenatal alcohol exposure are at higher risk for risky alcohol drinking as adolescents or young adults. This project investigated the combined and separate impacts of prenatal and adolescent alcohol exposure on cognition and decision making and found that the “double hit” of prenatal and adolescent exposure yielded...

This study looked at whether the way people text and use their smartphones can help identify those at risk for long-term mental and physical distress after experiencing a traumatic event. Researchers tracked the phone usage of over 1,000 trauma survivors via a background app and found that individuals with slower...

This study examined how young adults at elevated risk for psychosis are using generative AI chatbots and found that they were more likely to engage in intensive, emotionally oriented use, including treating chatbots as companions, friends, or therapists. The findings also suggest that potentially delusion-related interactions with AI are relatively...