News

The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to announce the promotion of Robert Hudak, MD to the rank of Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Hudak earned his medical degree from the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine through Youngstown State University and completed his residency at Case Western Reserve University where he served as chief resident in his final year. Prior to his recruitment by the...

The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation has selected two researchers from the Department of Psychiatry to receive a NARSAD Young Investigator Award.Marianne Seney, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, will use the award to investigate the impaired balance in excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission in depression possibly resulting from decreased gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated inhibition. The study...

Anne Penner, MD Selected for George Ginsberg Fellowship Award by the American Association for Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training Dr. Anne Penner has been selected as a winner of the 2015 George Ginsberg MD Fellowship by the American Association for Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT). Selection for the fellowship is highly competitive. The Fellowship acknowledges the excellence and the...

Longer Lithium Exposure is Associated with Better White Matter Integrity in Older Adults with Bipolar Disorder Gildengers AG, Butters MA, Aizenstein HJ, Marron MM, Emanuel J, Anderson SJ, Weissfeld LA, Becker JT, Lopez OL, Mulsant BH and Reynolds CF, III Bipolar Disorder, In Press Bipolar disorder is associated with cognitive dysfunction and structural brain abnormalities. In human and non-human studies, lithium...

Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease using PiB and FDG PET Cohen AD and Klunk WE Neurobiology of Disease, 72:117-122, 2014 The use of biomarkers in the detection of early and preclinical Alzheimer's disease has become of central importance following publication of the revised criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment and preclinical Alzheimer's disease by the National Institute...

Please join us in congratulating Duncan B. Clark, MD, PhD, on his promotion to the rank of Professor of Psychiatry with tenure by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He also holds an appointment in Pharmaceutical Sciences in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Clark completed a doctorate degree in Psychology, a clinical internship and postdoctoral training at UCLA. After...