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Congratulations to Michael Marcsisin, MD on his selection for the 2016 Marshall W. Webster Physician Leadership Program. The Marshall Webster Physician Leadership Program is a collaborative venture between the Center for Healthcare Management at the University of Pittsburgh Katz School of Business and UPMC. Each year, only 30 physicians are selected from a large pool of applicants for the highly competitive program...

The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) has selected an article by Ariel Gildengers, MD as one of the best papers published in the journal Bipolar Disorders in 2015. Dr. Gildengers is an active member of the Department of Psychiatry's Geriatric Psychiatry Research program and has published extensively on late-life mood disorders. Dr. Gildengers' paper was one of only three articles selected by a...

Time-varying associations between confidence and motivation to abstain from marijuana during treatment among adolescents Chung T and Maisto SA Addictive Behavior, 57:62-68, 2016 An important goal of addictions treatment is to develop a positive association between high levels of confidence and motivation to abstain from substance use. Dr. Tammy Chung examined session-to-session changes in level of confidence and...

The role of non-rapid eye movement slow wave activity in prefrontal metabolism across young and middle-aged adults Wilckens KA, Aizenstein HJ, Nofzinger EA, James JA, Hasler BP, Rosario-Rivera BL, Franzen PL, Germain A, Hall MH, Kupfer DJ, Price JC, Siegle GJ and Buysse DJ Journal of Sleep Research, 25:296-306 (2016) Slow-wave sleep is a marker for cortical reorganization, particularly within the prefrontal cortex...

Congratulations to Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos, PhD on his promotion to the rank of Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. A graduate of the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, Dr. Gonzalez-Burgos received his PhD in Neuroscience in 1995, and began his career at the University of Pittsburgh later that year. As a postdoc in the Department of Neuroscience, he studied...

Amygdala activity during autobiographical recall in depressed and vulnerable individuals: Association with symptom severity and autobiographical overgenerality Young KD, Siegle GJ, Bodurka J and Drevets WC American Journal of Psychiatry, 173:78-89, 2016 In healthy individuals, autobiographical memory recall is biased toward positive and away from negative events, while the opposite is found in depressed individuals...