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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...

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has promoted Dr. James Tew, Jr. to the rank of Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Tew is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the psychiatry residency program and the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC (WPIC). He was appointed to the Department of Psychiatry faculty in 2006 and...

Register now and join us for the Fifth Annual ADHD Conference. The conference will take place September 23, 2016 from 8:00am-4:30pm at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh, PA. This year?s program focuses on ADHD across the life span and is sponsored by UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Community Care Behavioral Health. Dr. Russell A. Barkley, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and...

The Center for Translational Mental Health Research?s Undergraduate Research Program offers young scientists a unique opportunity to engage in hands-on, cutting edge neuroscience research under the mentorship of highly successful clinical and basic neuroscientists in the Department of Psychiatry. Fourteen undergraduates participated in the 10-week summer program this year, many of whom will continue their work at...

Decision-making Competence and Attempted Suicide Szanto K, Bruine de Bruin W, Parker AM, Hallquist MN, Vanyukov PM, and Dombrovski AY. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Published online Decision biases are systematic deviations from normative (rational) choices that aim to provide the decision maker with the maximum likelihood of the desired outcome. While the propensity of people vulnerable to suicide to make poor...

Two members of the Department of Psychiatry have been selected for Travel Awards by the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). Jill Glausier, PhD is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and an active member of the Translational Neuroscience Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include investigating excitatory signaling and oxidative phosphorylation alterations in schizophrenia...