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Chair, Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody speaks with the Washington Post about the struggle of college student mental health as the pandemic continues

October 22, 2021

Substance Abuse Awareness Month Blog Post

October 21, 2021

Tragedy at UNC underscores the need for student mental health care on NC campuses, Dr. Amy Ursano speaks with News & Reporter

October 21, 2021

“Research on youth and self-compassion consistently shows that those who are more self-compassionate, who treat themselves with greater kindness and less hostility, endure less anxiety, depression, and stress”, Dr. Karen Bluth shares with Psychology Today

October 21, 2021

UNC professor of psychiatry Dr. Jonny Gerkin speaks to CBS17 and reacted to the study by saying vaccine lotteries may have had the opposite effect on those who were already skeptical.

October 20, 2021

Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody speaking on a panel at HLTH2021 – Bracing for Impact: the Pandemic’s toll on mental illness

October 20, 2021

In search of sex-related mediators of affective illness

October 20, 2021
Sex differences in the rates of affective disorders have been recognized for decades. We provide an overview of the current literature on sex differences as they relate to mood disorders, organizing existing findings into five levels at which sex differences conceivably influence physiology relevant to affective states.

Dr. Nate Sowa is heading up a new program to make ground on the problem the national pandemic has caused for children’s mental health.

October 19, 2021

“We know that rates of depression, anxiety, and rates of suicide in young people and college-age people is at an all time high. This is a national crisis,” Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody told CNN as they discuss campus suicides.

October 19, 2021

UNC Partners with SECU Foundation to Increase Behavioral Health Care Access to Children through Telepsychiatry

October 13, 2021