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Access the UPMC/Pitt Mental and Physical Health Resource Guide

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The Department of Psychiatry Advocacy Workgroup has created a Mental and Physical Health Resource Guide for employees of the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC. The guide provides information on how to find information and support on topics including but not limited to workplace accommodations and accessibility, leaves of absence, and short-term disability. Click here to view and print the Mental and Physical Health...

Kurt Ackerman, MD, PhD, Receives Special Honor from Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Please join us in congratulating Kurt Ackerman, MD, PhD (Clinician Emeritus of Psychiatry), who has received the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP)’s 2025 Special Recognition Award, recognizing an individual who has provided outstanding service to the field of consultation-liaison psychiatry locally and nationally. The Award, as determined by the ACLP Fellowship and Awards Committee, is a special...

The Department of Psychiatry Welcomes New Clinical Faculty Members: Resident Alumnae Anika Binner, MD, and Isabella Kratzer, MD

Drs. Anika Binner and Isabella Kratzer

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to new clinical faculty members—and recent UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) resident alums— Anika Binner, MD, and Isabella Kratzer, MD. Anika Binner, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. Binner earned her MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She completed child and adolescent psychiatry residency training and fellowship at WPH in the Academic...

Recent Research on Neural Network Connectivity in Late-Life Depression and Anxiety

Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry: CNNI

Recent papers in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging examine neural connectivity in late-life anxiety and depression. “Together, these two studies highlight the central role of the default mode network—a diverse set of brain regions theorized to integrate our experiences and sense of self—and its relationship with other large-scale brain networks in affective...

Molecular Psychiatry: Associations Among White Matter Microstructural Changes and the Development of Emotional Reactivity and Regulation in Infancy

Molecular Psychiatry

In infancy and throughout childhood, high levels of negative emotionality (for example, frequent and intense crying), low levels of positive emotionality (for example, limited smiling and laughter), and deficits in emotional regulation can predict future behavioral and affective disorders. White matter tracts in the brain develop rapidly in the first postnatal year, and their development is critical for...

Recent Research on the Association Between Aberrant Dendritic Development and Risk for Schizophrenia

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Melanie Grubisha, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), investigates the molecular underpinnings of psychiatric and neurological disease, focusing on the molecular pathways responsible for both typical and aberrant dendritic development across adolescence. Two recent papers in Neurobiology of Disease describe recent findings on the association between dendritic alterations and risk for schizophrenia...

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