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Study Shows Brief Individualized Counseling Program Can Improve Sleep in Older Adults A recent article in U.S. News & World Report featured the work of Daniel J. Buysse, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science and Co-Director of the University of Pittsburgh Sleep Medicine Institute. In this study, Dr. Buysse and his colleagues found that a brief individualized counseling program was...

Snoring and Insomnia linked to Risk of Metabolic Syndrome A study led by Wendy M. Troxel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, linking snoring and insomnia to the risk of developing metabolic syndrome has been featured in several news publications including the Los Angeles Times. The results of the study demonstrate the importance of screening for common sleep disorders in routine clinical...

CONTACT: Megan Grote Quatrini PHONE: (412) 586-9769 E-MAIL: GroteME@upmc.edu CONTACT: Wendy Zellner PHONE: (412) 586-9777 EMAIL: ZellnerWL@upmc.edu Leading Experts in Schizophrenia to Meet at 27th Annual Pittsburgh Schizophrenia Conference Dec. 10 Internationally renowned experts in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, researchers and clinicians, patients and their families and friends will gather in...

Children with Mania Do Not Always Have Bipolar Disorder Children with elevated symptoms of mania (ESM) are far more likely to meet criteria for disruptive behavior disorders than for bipolar spectrum disorder according to new data from the Longitudinal Assessment of Manic Symptoms (LAMS) study. The multi-site project, led in Pittsburgh by Boris Birmaher, MD, also found that that kids that do have bipolar disorder...

WPIC Opens Nation?s First Bipolar Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit The Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) of UPMC has opened the nation's only inpatient unit dedicated to serving children with bipolar disorder. The Inpatient Child and Adolescent Bipolar Services (in-CABS) program is an innovative initiative aimed at facilitating early identification and treatment of bipolar disorder in children...

Diagnosing Postpartum Depression with a Brain Scan Eydie L. Moses-Kolko, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, was recently featured in a Time Magazine article highlighting her research on the use of brain-imaging in new mothers that may help to identify women who are vulnerable to post-partum depression. In this study, Dr. Moses-Kolko found interesting differences in the way mothers? brain regions interacted and...