September 17, 2020
Eating disorders intensify amid pandemic – Dr. Christine Peat
Eating disorders are growing and intensifying as Americans' grapple with the emotional toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, NPR reports.
September 17, 2020
Eating disorders are growing and intensifying as Americans' grapple with the emotional toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, NPR reports.
June 15, 2020
Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a team of internationally acclaimed researchers led by UNC School of Medicine’s Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, aims to create new medications to effectively and rapidly treat depression, anxiety, and substance abuse without major side effects.
October 15, 2019
The sessions are open to all UNC affiliated staff, students, researchers, clinical trainees and faculty. Please drop in to experience some basic, guided mindfulness practices that incorporate insight-oriented, gratitude, and loving-kindness meditations, among other practices.
August 29, 2019
Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, Ray M. Hayworth and Family Distinguished Professor of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, has been appointed Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, effective October 1.
July 15, 2019
The large-scale genome-wide association study, led by UNC’s Cynthia M. Bulik, PhD, FAED, founding director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, and Gerome Breen, PhD, of King’s College London suggests that the origins of the eating disorder include a combination of metabolic and psychiatric components.
May 30, 2019
Gary Gala, MD, has been named interim Chair of the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, effective July 1, 2019.
March 13, 2019
Christina M. Cruz, MD, an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry, created a new school mental health system that is being piloted in the Darjeeling Hills of India.
March 11, 2019
UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Flavio Frohlich, PhD, are the first to use transcranial alternating current brain stimulation (tACS) to significantly reduce symptoms in people diagnosed with major depression.
January 31, 2019
The study, co-authored by Zeynep Yilmaz, PhD, also found that persistent high body weight in young children may be a risk factor for later development of other eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and purging disorder.
November 8, 2018
Neuroscientists and chronic pain experts at the UNC School of Medicine used a weak alternating current of electricity to target a specific part of the brain and significantly decrease chronic lower back pain in all participants of a small clinical trial.
September 27, 2018
David Rubinow, MD, Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, will step down from his position of Department Chair effective July 1, 2019.
August 31, 2018
The findings of the integrated analysis from one phase 2 and two phase 3 pivotal trials were published today in The Lancet. Lead author Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, of the UNC School of Medicine said the promising results mark a major step forward in women’s health care.