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The Department of Psychiatry is mourning the passing of Dr. Rolf Loeber, an internationally renowned academic researcher and esteemed member of our faculty since 1984. Dr. Loeber was Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh and a Professor of Juvenile Delinquency and Social Development at the Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. With his wife and life...

The Clinical Psychology Internship program has welcomed a new class of gifted students from across the United States to Pittsburgh. This year, over 3,100 applicants were matched to internship positions in North America. Our pre-doctoral internship program attracts some of the most gifted students. The incoming class represents a wide range of scientific and clinical interests from learning and decision-making to...

Research by Dr. Kenneth Fish’s laboratory provides an unprecedented level of resolution and insight into disturbances in cortical GABAergic microcircuits, which are thought to underlie cognitive impairments in schizophrenia. In an article published in Biological Psychiatry, the investigators reveal new detailed understanding about alterations in neurocircuitry that point to abnormal neurodevelopment in the disorder...

Brief Behavioral Therapy for Pediatric Anxiety and Depression in Primary Care: A Randomized Clinical TrialWeersing VR, Brent DA, Rozenman MS, Gonzalez A, Jeffreys M, Dickerson JF, Lynch FL, Porta G and Iyengar SJAMA Psychiatry. Published online Anxiety and depression affect 30% of youth but are markedly undertreated compared with other mental disorders, especially in Hispanic populations. A study by Dr. David Brent...

Mindscapes, an exhibit of artwork created by Pittsburgh brain researchers and people who have experienced mental illness, was held at The Image Box as part of the Unblurred: First Fridays on Penn monthly art crawl. Drs. Lizzie Manning and Micah Shelton, researchers from the Translational Neuroscience Program (working with Dr. Susanne Ahmari and Dr. Ryan Logan, respectively), held the event during national Mental...