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Evening-Type Military Veterans Report Worse Lifetime Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Greater Brainstem Activity across Wakefulness and REM SleepHasler BP, Insana SP, James JA, Germain A Individual preferences in sleep-wake timing, or morningness-eveningness, colloquially referred to as being an ?early bird? or a ?night owl,? can be associated with mental and physical health outcomes. Various studies have linked...

Christopher Kline, PhD Appointed Assistant Professor of Psychiatry The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has appointed Christopher Kline, PhD as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Kline is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, where he earned a PhD in Exercise Science from the Arnold School of Public Health. As a trainee in the Chronobiology Laboratory of Dr. Shawn Youngstedt, he led...

Please join us in welcoming Leslie Horton, PhD to the Department of Psychiatry faculty. Dr. Horton earned a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 2010 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro under the mentorship of Dr. Thomas Kwapil where her research focused on the study of social dysfunction in young adults with schizotypy. She is a graduate of the Clinical Psychology Internship program at Western Psychiatric...

The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to welcome Lori Scott, PhD to its faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Scott is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University where she earned a Master?s degree (2007) and a doctorate degree (2011) in Clinical Psychology. She first became interested in the study of emotion dysregulation, aggression, and borderline personality disorder as a student at Penn State...

Cholinergic modulation of neuronal excitability and recurrent excitation-inhibition in prefrontal cortex circuits: implications for gamma oscillations Pafundo DE, Miyamae T, Lewis DA and Gonzalez-Burgos G Cognitive functions such as working memory, the ability to hold and use small amounts of information in one?s mind for a short period of time, depend on the rhythmic activity of networks of neurons known as gamma...

Mild Cognitive Impairment: Incidence and Vascular Risk Factors in a Population-Based Cohort Ganguli M, Fu B, Snitz BE, Hughes TF, Chang CCH Mild cognitive impairment is a cognitive state intermediate between normal cognitive aging and dementia. In a recent study published in the journal Neurology, Dr. Mary Ganguli and her colleagues examined the incidence of mild cognitive impairment in previously normal older...