Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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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. -
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. -
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. -
January 27, 2022
White matter and psychosis
The microstructure of white matter in the brain could be an important risk marker for psychosis, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered. -
December 2, 2021
Study links depression scores, white blood cell count
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September 30, 2021
Project seeks to treat Alzheimer’s in people with Down syndrome
A joint project between the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and the Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive Medicine will help deliver Alzheimer’s disease therapies and treatments to people with Down syndrome (DS). -
September 20, 2021
Brain circuits in schizophrenia
Vanderbilt psychiatrists are probing brain circuit hyperactivity implicated in schizophrenia, with the idea that normalizing the hyperactivity may improve cognitive processes.