Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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
March 28, 2023

Behavioral Health Clinical Services Center formed

The newly developed Behavioral Health Clinical Services Center provides a professional home for licensed and license-eligible, non-physician behavioral health providers who are delivering assessment, diagnosis and intervention to patients receiving services throughout Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

By VUMC News and Communications
December 15, 2022

Program supports caregivers of children with mental health emergencies

A pilot program recently launched in the emergency department at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is providing resources to caregivers of children with mental health emergencies via text messaging.

By Jessica Pasley
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
September 8, 2022

Juárez named director of behavior analysis

Pablo Juárez, MEd, BCBA, LBA, has been named director of behavior analysis within the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and the Division of Developmental Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

By Courtney Taylor
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
April 13, 2022

Study compares moral injury in health care workers and veterans

A study comparing 618 military veterans who deployed to a combat zone after Sept. 11, 2001, and 2,099 health care workers (HCWs) working during the COVID-19 pandemic found similar levels of potential moral injury (PMI), with 46.1% of veterans and 50.7% of HCWs reporting PMI.
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
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