February 24, 2021
Cynthia M. Bulik, PhD, Founding Director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, is co-author of the Viewpoint article published in JAMA Psychiatry.
February 8, 2021
This study, co-led by John Gilmore, MD, provides further confirmation of placenta's role in early life development of schizophrenia, and lays groundwork for preventing the brain disorder.
January 13, 2021
The conference’s aim is exploring the perspective of fathers who have children with autism, and offering support and resources.
November 18, 2020
The Touchpoint 20 Zoom Series Continues with November Segment, 'Be Well. Be Great. Let's Celebrate'.
October 6, 2020
For the first time, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named two clinical scholars from the same institution to two different health provider teams in the same year: Crystal Wiley Cené, MD, MPH, and Thava Mahadevan, MS.
September 24, 2020
Scientists pinpoint how psychedelic drugs bind to 5-HT2A serotonin receptors.
September 17, 2020
The ProNET project aims to test whether data-driven variation in biomarkers can be used to predict individual clinical trajectories and select individual patients most likely to benefit from specific treatments. The Department of Psychiatry's Diana Perkins, MD, MPH, is the UNC principal investigator for ProNET.
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.