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Weight a Minute: There are Effective Behavioral Interventions to Treat Obesity The Department of Psychiatry will feature the work of John Jakicic, PhD as part of its lecture series on May 26th. Dr. Jakicic, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Health and Physical Activity, directs the Physical Activity and Weight Management Research Center and the Healthy Lifestyle Institute at the University of...

Daniel Fishman, MD has received an Alpha Omega Alpha Postgraduate Award from the Pittsburgh Alpha Omega Alpha Society Class of 2017. The annual award recognizes residents who consistently go above and beyond in their role as a medical educator or in setting an example for patient care. Dr. Fishman is a PGY-4 resident in the Academic Administrator, Clinician Educator specialty track. He has significant interests in...

Relationship between Duration of Untreated Psychosis and Intrinsic Corticostriatal Connectivity in Patients with Early Phase SchizophreniaSarpal DK, Robinson DG, Fales C, Lencz T, Argyelan M, Karlsgodt KH, Gallego JA, John M, Kane JM, Szeszko PR and Malhotra AKNeuropsychopharmacology, Published online 2017 Patients with first-episode psychosis experience psychotic symptoms for a mean of up to 2 years prior to...

Connectivity between the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is compromised in multiple psychiatric disorders, many of which emerge during adolescence. To identify what extent the deviations in amygdala-vmPFC maturation contribute to the onset of psychiatric disorders, it is essential to characterize amygdala-vmPFC subregion connectivity changes during typical development. Dr. Maria Jalbrzikowski...

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Class of 2018 has selected Dr. Priyanka Amin as a recipient of the Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching / "Little Apple" Award. She is a second-year resident in the Department of Psychiatry's General Psychiatry Residency Training Program and is one of only six residents selected from approximately 1,700 residents and fellows in ACGME-accredited...

Developmental pruning of excitatory synaptic inputs to parvalbumin interneurons in monkey prefrontal cortex Chung DW, Wills ZP, Fish KN and Lewis DA Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017, 114:E629-E637 Working memory requires efficient excitatory drive to parvalbumin-positive (PV) interneurons in the primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Developmental...