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The Emotion Prosthetics team took first place in the Pitt Innovation Challenge (PInCh®) final event for creating Purrr, an autoreactive wearable device that detects rising stress levels and empowers people to effortlessly control them. The sensing technology used in Purrr recognizes when a person starts to become stressed and responds by applying layered vibration frequencies to the person's wrist or back, and the...

Research by our psychiatry residents was well represented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) in Washington, DC. Kristen Eckstrand, MD, PhD (PGY3) was presented with the 2017 AACAP Beatrix A. Hamburg Award for Best Research Poster for her poster titled “Anterior Cingulate Connectivity During Reward Processing Mediates the Relationship Between Trauma Exposure and Depressive and...

The Department of Psychiatry is mourning the passing of Dr. Rolf Loeber, an internationally renowned academic researcher and esteemed member of our faculty since 1984. Dr. Loeber was Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh and a Professor of Juvenile Delinquency and Social Development at the Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. With his wife and life...

The Clinical Psychology Internship program has welcomed a new class of gifted students from across the United States to Pittsburgh. This year, over 3,100 applicants were matched to internship positions in North America. Our pre-doctoral internship program attracts some of the most gifted students. The incoming class represents a wide range of scientific and clinical interests from learning and decision-making to...

Research by Dr. Kenneth Fish’s laboratory provides an unprecedented level of resolution and insight into disturbances in cortical GABAergic microcircuits, which are thought to underlie cognitive impairments in schizophrenia. In an article published in Biological Psychiatry, the investigators reveal new detailed understanding about alterations in neurocircuitry that point to abnormal neurodevelopment in the disorder...