Department of Psychiatry

February 29, 2024

Study targets nicotine craving in schizophrenia

Vanderbilt’s Heather Burrell Ward, MD, has received a five-year, $928,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to test whether an externally applied magnetic field can reduce nicotine craving in people with schizophrenia.

By Bill Snyder
October 19, 2023

VUMC co-hosts the 2023 Mid-South Addiction Conference Oct. 27 and 28

The second-annual 2023 Mid-South Addiction Conference is Oct. 27 and 28 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

By Danny Bonvissuto
July 19, 2023

Study highlights consequences of chronic benzodiazepine use

The lived experience of colleagues who took benzodiazepines and experienced distressing effects inspired a recent study that found the depressant is linked to nervous system injury and negative life effects during and after use.

By Danny Bonvissuto
July 17, 2023

Academy for Excellence in Education elects 13 new members

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Academy for Excellence in Education has elected 13 new members for 2023.

By Doug Campbell
November 14, 2022

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences celebrates 75 years

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences celebrated its 75th anniversary on Nov. 11 with an afternoon program that highlighted its contributions to professional education, research, and clinical care.

By Bill Snyder
September 26, 2022

Gender differences with bladder pain

Gender differences in the pain experiences and treatment needs of people with a urologic pain syndrome could be used to improve interventions, Vanderbilt researchers report.

By Leigh MacMillan
April 28, 2022

ASD study explores link between repetitive motion, depression

A Vanderbilt found that research into depression risk and resilience factors for adults with ASD is also critical to guide proper screening and intervention efforts.
By Emily Stembridge
April 21, 2022

Children with autism report greater gender diversity: study

Vanderbilt researchers found that children with autism report higher rates of gender diversity — the way in which an individual experiences gender distinct from social norms for their gender assigned at birth — than their typically developing peers.
By Emily Stembridge
April 21, 2022

Taylor, Newhouse, Petrie honored by geriatric psychiatry association

Vanderbilt's Warren Taylor, MD, MHSc, Paul Newhouse, MD, and William Petrie, MD, were recently honored at the 2022 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Awards.
By Emily Stembridge
March 17, 2022

Psychiatry lecture honors first Black resident physician

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences recently hosted the fourth annual Harold Jordan Diversity and Inclusion lecture, hosted by guest lecturer Robert Sellers, PhD.
By Emily Stembridge
February 28, 2022

VUMC mourns loss of former Psychopharmacology director Ban

Thomas Arthur Ban, MD, emeritus professor of Psychiatry and former director of Vanderbilt's Division of Psychopharmacology, died Feb. 4. He was 92.
By Kathy Whitney
February 3, 2022

New model helps expand opioid use care options

Vanderbilt is using an innovative hub and spoke treatment model to care for patients with opioid use disorder.
By Emily Stembridge
December 2, 2021

Study links depression scores, white blood cell count

By Emily Stembridge
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