Psychiatry Advances

Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Autism through Community Partnership | Kelly Beck, PhD

Addressing Mental Health and Suicide Risk in Autism Through Community Partnership

Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Blood Biomarkers and Alzheimers | Dr. Karikari

Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Transcranial Focused Ultrasound | Fabio Ferrarelli, MD, PhD and Marta Pecina, MD, PhD

Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder

Jessica Gannon MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry.This Podcast describes this mental disorder, updating its definitional descriptive characteristics, noting variation, advances in treatment, e.g. long- lasting dr

Psychiatry Advances Podcast | Rural Psychiatry | Marianne Albaugh, MD

Psychiatry Advances: The Challenges of working with Adolescents in the In-Patient Setting

Dr. Daniel Bender is the Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit at Western Psychiatric Hospital. His clinical work was recently featured in the New York Times (Reference included).

Psychiatry Advances: The Whole Child Wellness Clinic: Integrating Physical, Behavioral and Family Support into One Clinic

Justin Schreiber DO, MPH is a Tripple Boarded Assistant Professor of Medicine. Nafessah Wynn is an experienced credentialed Family Peer Specialist Coordinator. Working together they treat families in the Whole Child Well

Psychiatry Advances: Psychosocial Treatment for youth with Bi-Polar Spectrum disorders and their Families

Tina R Goldstein PHD is the Endowed Pittsburgh Foundation Professor of Psychiatry. This Podcast focusses upon DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Treatment) for children and youth, a cognitive therapy, with special consideration

Psychiatry Advances: Body Clocks and Bipolar Disorder: A Novel Treatment Approach

Holly Swartz MD. Is Professor of Psychiatry. Following an explanation of Chronobiology (Body Rhythms) as relevant to Health, this podcast focuses on five daily rhythms likely altered in patients with bipolar disorders. C

Psychiatry Advances: Dopamine In and Out Of The Brain

Dr. Zachery Freyberg MD,PHD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an expert in Cellular Biology as well as being an outstanding psychiatric clinician. This podcast discusses the role

Psychiatry Advances: The Etiology and Treatment of Weight Related Disorders in Youth

Andrea Goldschmidt PHD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry. This Podcast focusses upon the causes and treatment of excessive weight gain, loss of control of eating in youth and adolescents. The major topic of discussion

Psychiatry Advances: Mental Health and Suicide in Autistic Teens and Adults

Carla Mazevsky PHD, is the Nancy J Minshew Endowed Chair in Autism Research, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and Translational Research at the University of Pittsburgh. She is an expert in key emotional aspects of

Psychiatry Advances: Present Challenges and Opportunities in the New Era of Alzheimer’s Disease

Annie Cohen PHD is Associative Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. This Podcast updates ongoing research and manifestation of Alzheimer’s Disease, its diagnosis (Amyloid, Tau deposition), biomarkers

Psychiatry Advances: The University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry Is Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry is involved in efforts to promote and implement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). In this podcast, four faculty members offer brief presentations and discuss th

Psychiatry Advances: Severe Anxiety in Older Adults and its Effects on Brain and Body Aging

Carmen Andreescu is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. This podcast focusses on severe worry and anxiety in aged persons. Not all worry in aged persons is pathological. Severe worry includes dramati

Psychiatry Advances: Strategies to Help Families and Children Harmed by a Loved One's Drug Addiction

Dennis Daley PhD is Professor of Psychiatry and former Chief Addiction Medicine Services at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. For more than 30 years Dr. Daley provided clinical services to persons with SUDs. His teachin

Psychiatry Advances: Sleep, Circadian Rhythms and Risk For Adolescent Substance Abuse

Brant P. Hasler, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology. He is the PI of multiple NH research grants. These investigate changing adolescent sleep patterns, late bedtimes, early arising and consequent in

Psychiatry Advances: Leadership Development for Academic Clinical/Educational Faculty Careers

Dr. Jamie Tew is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. This Podcast describes his personal evolution from being a full-time clinical educator into his becoming a lead clinician administer at the UPMC Western Psychiatric

Psychiatry Advances: Affect Among Teenagers - The Role of Sleep

Peter Franzen PhD. Is Associate Director for Education of the University of Pittsburgh Sleep and Chronobiology Center. This Podcast discusses teenagers shortened sleep during critical high school years, when teenagers mu

Psychiatry Advances: Early Life Experiences Shape Brain Development-Translational Sciences Implications

Judy Cameron PhD is a Professor of Psychiatry. This podcast describes ongoing leading public education, intervention and training programs derived from her previous extensive experimental neuroscience research in primate