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CABS Program Honored for Integration Efforts CABS Faculty (left to right): Drs. Boris Birmaher, Tina Goldstein, David Axelson, Dara Sakolsky and Rasim Diler The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to announce that the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Services (CABS) program has been selected by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare for the 2013 Reintegration Award in Clinical Medicine. The program...

NIMH Presents Bernie Devlin, PhD with MERIT Award The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has presented a Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award to Dr. Bernie Devlin, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Human Genetics and Clinical and Translational Science, to extend his research which develops and refines statistical methods to detect genetic association in schizophrenia and other disorders. Dr. Devlin...

Resident Selected for American Balint Society Fellowship Congratulations to David Atkinson, MD, a PGY3 psychiatry resident, on being named the 2013-2014 American Balint Society (ABS) Fellow. He is the first psychiatrist selected by the Society to fill this post. As part of the fellowship, Dr. Atkinson will serve as a member of the ABS Council for a term of one year and will represent members in training in a...

An Important Role for Cholecystokinin, a CLOCK Target Gene, in the Development and Treatment of Manic-like Behaviors Arey RN, Enwright JF III, Spencer SM, Falcon E, Ozburn AR, Ghose S, Tamminga C, McClung CA. Bipolar disorder, characterized by alternating periods of mania and depression, has been associated with disruptions in circadian rhythms, the biological processes that occur on a roughly 24-hour cycle...

Elevated serum measures of lipid peroxidation and abnormal prefrontal white matter in euthymic bipolar adults: toward peripheral biomarkers of bipolar disorder.Versace A, Andreazza AC, Trevor Young L, Fournier JC, Almeida JRC, Stiffler RS, Lockovich JC, Aslam HA, Pollock MH, Park H, Nimgaonkar VL, Kupfer DJ, Phillips ML. It is estimated that bipolar disorder (BD), affects 2.6% of the US adult population. Studies...

Genome-Wide Association Studies of Alzheimer?s Disease Alzheimer?s disease is the most common cause of loss of memory and cognitive abilities in late life, and is currently estimated to affect more than five million Americans. That number is projected to more than double by 2050 unless a way to delay or prevent its onset can be identified. About 50% of individuals with Alzheimer?s disease also experience psychotic...