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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...

Black caregivers of children with autism often face a lack of understanding and acceptance within their communities, leading to emotional strain and family tensions around diagnoses and support. This study, based on interviews with 23 caregivers, highlights both the challenges of denial and misinformation as well as the presence of...

In this paper we identified an undescribed channel (GluD1) in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) that leads to cell depolarization and alters the function of excitatory transmission. The BNST is an area of the brain involved in stress and anxiety which suggests that changes in this channel’s...

This study extends existing knowledge regarding cultural adaptations for suicide prevention interventions among Black youth, suggesting the need for deep-structure adaptations that focus on building trust, fostering transparent communication, and surrounding the youth with a supportive community that values their input and decision-making.

Polygenic scores for depression derived from genome-wide association studies (DEP-PGS) have been previously linked to individual-level stress exposure in youth, but it remains unclear if DEP-PGSs are also associated with neighborhood-level adversity in preadolescent youth. Findings indicated that youth with greater DEP-PGSs were more likely to live in neighborhoods marked...