June 19, 2024
Headspace, the popular wellness app, is available to UNC Health Employees, a partnership highlighted in a two-part episode of the TarHeal Wellness podcast exploring the partnership and available resources, including evidence-based meditation and mindfulness tools, mental health coaching, therapy, psychiatry, and family support.
May 13, 2024
The UNC School of Medicine lab of Zoe McElligott, PhD, and colleagues found that the animal tranquilizer xylazine activates opioid receptors in the brain, suggesting a reason why the treatment naloxone triggers a more severe withdrawal response when given to individuals on fentanyl/xylazine and suffering from respiratory depression.
April 24, 2024
UNC Addiction Medicine Program and CORE NC presented on "Low Threshold MOUD: Partnering with Community to Expand Access" during the Morning Plenary at the 2024 Addiction Medicine Conference and shared new video on the Atlas Mobile Clinic community-campus partnership in Robeson County.
April 4, 2024
One of the main priorities of the Mental Health Equity and Inclusion Program is to enlarge the number of qualified students interested in pursuing careers in psychiatry. As an intentional effort to accomplish this goal, the program engaged with medical students at a national conference interested in learning more about residency training at UNC, future career options in psychiatry, the Triangle as a place to live, and how they may become more engaged in the pursuit of mental health equity.
January 29, 2024
Becker’s Hospital Review talks with Nadia Charguia, MD, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry, about physician burnout, struggles, well-being, and efforts in reducing departure.
December 19, 2023
Dea Garic, PhD, and Mark Shen, PhD, both in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, have found that enlarged perivascular spaces in the brains of babies, caused by an accumulation of excess cerebrospinal fluid, have a 2.2 times greater chance of developing autism later in life.
December 13, 2023
Joseph Piven, MD, the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, has served as founding editor-in-chief of Journal for Neurodevelopmental Disorders since 2009, when the journal began publishing as part of the Springer Nature family of scientific journals.
December 5, 2023
Christian Hendershot, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Clinical and Translational Addiction Research Program at the UNC School of Medicine, co-wrote a commentary on repurposing the antidiabetic medication semaglutide to treat substance and alcohol use disorders.
November 7, 2023
Partnership with NC DHHS will improve psychiatric care for children and adolescents.
October 19, 2023
UNC School of Medicine scientists led the largest-ever genomic study of postpartum depression showing genetic correlations between PPD and other psychiatric conditions, as well as providing potential evidence of how the only FDA-approved treatment for PPD works.
October 18, 2023
The $5-million initiative, led by the UNC School of Medicine and funded through the U.S. Department of Defense, will test the efficacy of an intervention developed at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research originally designed to help service members who experience acute stress reactions during military operations. Sam McLean, MD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and emergency medicine, is the principal investigator.
October 3, 2023
Hersh Shroff, MD, a transplant hepatologist and assistant professor of medicine, has seen the human impact of a recent, rising trend: Severe alcohol-related liver disease with high rates of death or need for liver transplantation. The new IHEAL Clinic at Eastowne addresses this trend.