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AACAP Selects Drs. Heather Joseph and Justin Schreiber for Educational Outreach Program Awards Congratulations to Drs. Heather Joseph and Justin Schreiber on their selection for the Educational Outreach Program for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residents, supported by the Life Members Fund of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). The Educational Outreach Program Awards will provide Drs...

Evaluation of a Booster Intervention Three Years after Acute Treatment for Early-Onset Disruptive Behavior Disorders Kolko DJ, Lindhiem O, Hart J and Bukstein OG Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 42:339-342, 2014 There have been numerous evidence-based treatments (EBTs) conducted in both clinical and community settings designed to teach skills to caregivers and their children, and treat children's externalizing...

WPIC Ranked in the Top 10 for Psychiatric Care in U.S. News & World Report Annual Honor Roll of Best Hospitals Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC (WPIC) has ranked in the top 10 hospital systems for psychiatric care in the United States in the 2013-2014 U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals annual survey rankings. WPIC earned its rating as one of the top psychiatric service providers in the...

Girls? Challenging Social Experiences in Early Adolescence Predict Neural Response to Rewards and Depressive Symptoms Casement MD, Guyer AE, Hipwell AE, McAloon RL, Hoffmann AM, Keenan KE, and Forbes EE Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 8:18-27, 2014 Developmental models of psychopathology posit that exposure to social stressors may confer risk for depression in adolescent girls by disrupting neural reward...

Students of the CTMHR & CABD Fellowships Complete the 2014 Undergraduate Summer Research Program On Friday, July 25, 2014, the ten week summer portion of the Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programs, funded by the NIMH Conte Center for Translational Mental Health Research (CTMHR) and the PA Department of Health Grant on Cannabis and Adolescent Brain Development (CABD), ended with the students' final presentations...

Abuse and Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease among Midlife Women: The Study of Women?s Health across the Nation Thurston RC, Chang Y, Derby CA, Bromberger JT, Harlow SD, Janssen I, and Matthews KA Stroke, DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.005928 Some evidence suggests that childhood abuse may be related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among women. However, this relation has largely been addressed using self-reported...