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“I think that everyone can agree that 2020 was not a traditional year. Following suit, ACNP 2020 was not a traditional meeting,” says Susanne Ahmari, MD, PhD, program chair for the 2020 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) Annual Meeting. “However, although it was not the meeting we expected to plan when I stepped into my term as program chair, it ended up being an incredible combination of old and...

EPINET: First-Episode Psychosis Research The UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) Services for the Treatment of Early Psychosis (STEP) clinic is an outpatient program for the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of people who may be experiencing early signs of a psychotic illness. STEP is one of 20 clinics across Maryland and Pennsylvania that will be included in an Early Psychosis Intervention Network...

Photo Credit: Meredith Spada, MD Pitt Psychiatry consultation-liaison faculty and trainees made the most of the virtual Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry annual meeting late last month and presented 12 posters and six symposia, workshops, or oral papers. Awards and Honors Patrick Buckley, MD (PGY3), who presented a poster entitled “Integrating Payer and Provider Data to Identify Factors Associated with...

The 37th annual Pittsburgh Schizophrenia Conference presented advances in schizophrenia research to a virtual audience of more than 300 psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and researchers, as well as patients and their families. At UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH), K.N. Roy Chengappa, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, is Chief, Comprehensive Recovery Services (CRS), which serves patients with...

It is widely believed that naming emotions can promote mental and physical health. However, little is known about how the use of wide emotional vocabularies is associated with emotional functioning. From a linguistic perspective, emotional vocabularies can be understood within two domains: active vocabulary, words that an individual uses spontaneously, and passive vocabulary, the full range of words that an...

The ongoing success of Pitt Psychiatry’s innovative research program is in large part thanks to the indispensable research staff who run labs and provide administrative oversight for grants. Meet five members of our research staff who recently received Department of Psychiatry Research Employee of the Year awards: Dan Galeza (Administrative Liaison, Neuropsychology Research Program) Dan Galeza was nominated by...