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Clinician Educator Showcase Offers Strategies for Career Development, Clinical Innovation and Educational Enhancements Register now for the Second Annual Clinician Educator Showcase, which will take place on Thursday, October 17, 2013 from 11:45am-3:45pm at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC (WPIC). The half-day event offers something for everyone. Whether you are looking for strategies to enhance...

AACAP Selects Melissa Muniz-Cohen, MDfor Educational Outreach Award and Appoints Her to Diversity and Culture Committee Congratulations to Melissa Muniz-Cohen, MD on her selection as a member of the Diversity and Culture Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). The committee is charged with identifying and promoting activities aimed at culturally informed child and adolescent...

Incorporating Dimensions into the Classification of Eating Disorders: Three Models and Their Implications for Research and Clinical PracticeWildes JE and Marcus MD Integration of dimensional approaches is a growing trend within the mental health field, expanding upon the traditional approach of classifying patients strictly by categories. The DSM-5 Task Force and the National Institute of Mental Health have...

Department Welcomes Henry Chase, PhD to Faculty The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to announce the appointment of Henry Chase, PhD as a Research Instructor in Psychiatry. Dr. Chase is conducting research in the area of major depression and bipolar disorder, specifically using neuropsychological and functional neuroimaging methods. He has been actively engaged in research in the Department's Mood and Brain...

Tobias Teichert, PhD, joins TNP Faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to welcome Dr. Tobias Teichert to the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Translational Neuroscience Program (TNP). After completing his PhD in Psychology at Philipps-University Marburg in Germany, Dr. Teichert held a Postdoctoral Research Scientist position in the Department of...

fNIRS evidence of prefrontal regulation of frustration in early childhoodPerlman SB, Luna B, Hein TC, Huppert TJ Frustration is a common experience in early childhood, yet its neural mechanisms have rarely been studied. A project by Dr. Susan Perlman and her colleagues investigated the neural substrate of frustration in children aged 3 to 5 years old. Children in the study were assessed using functional near...