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Discover innovative research and patient-centered programs at the cutting edge of psychiatry and behavioral health sciences on the “Psychiatry Advances” podcast series. Psychiatric, psychological, nursing, and rehabilitative professionals will enjoy this podcast from UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital of Pittsburgh, a national leader in the innovative treatment of mental health and addictive disorders.
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Dr. Daniel Bender is the Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit at Western Psychiatric Hospital. His clinical work was recently featured in the New York Times (Reference included).
Justin Schreiber DO, MPH is a Tripple Boarded Assistant Professor of Medicine.
Nafessah Wynn is an experienced credentialed Family Peer Specialist Coordinator. Working together they treat families in the Whole Child Wellness Clinic.
This podcast explores the procedures and advantages of treating families in an integrated care setting involving both medical expertise and family peer support. This setting, comparatively unusual, is particularly relevant for training both psychiatrists and other care givers.
Holly Swartz MD. Is Professor of Psychiatry. Following an explanation of Chronobiology (Body Rhythms) as relevant to Health, this podcast focuses on five daily rhythms likely altered in patients with bipolar disorders. Changing these rhythms fully focuses and engages patients in their own beneficial treatment. The Podcast reviews a new workbook, “The Social Rhythm Therapy” relevant for both trainees and patients.
Dr. Zachery Freyberg MD,PHD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an expert in Cellular Biology as well as being an outstanding psychiatric clinician. This podcast discusses the role of Dopamine transmission across the brain and within other organ systems of the body e.g. that of the pancreas. Weight gain is discussed as this relates to metabolic disturbance in patients taking anti-psychotic medications that affect insulin control and diabetes.
Andrea Goldschmidt PHD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry. This Podcast focusses upon the causes and treatment of excessive weight gain, loss of control of eating in youth and adolescents. The major topic of discussion relates to “binge eating “, the emotional and environmental causes of such eating disorders, such as uncontrolled urges, eating without feeling hungry, particularly after school. This is translational research. Gaps in present knowledge about these disorders are noted.
Carla Mazevsky PHD, is the Nancy J Minshew Endowed Chair in Autism Research, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and Translational Research at the University of Pittsburgh. She is an expert in key emotional aspects of Autistic people at all ages. This Podcast presents and focusses upon the challenges of overcoming/treating this unifying concept/reality among autistic people relating to “emotional dysregulation”. This is a fundamental/measurable concept and is characteristic of autistic people.
Annie Cohen PHD is Associative Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. This Podcast updates ongoing research and manifestation of Alzheimer’s Disease, its diagnosis (Amyloid, Tau deposition), biomarkers that may influence severity and early detection/diagnosis, also how social determinants of health affects early detection, e.g. access, extent of cardiovascular disease, residence, neighborhoods.
Carmen Andreescu is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. This podcast focusses on severe worry and anxiety in aged persons. Not all worry in aged persons is pathological. Severe worry includes dramatic effects on patient’s psychology, brain, and aging. These are characterized here as well as appropriate intervention/treatment noted. The value of Transcranial Stimulation(TMS) is noted.
Dennis Daley PhD is Professor of Psychiatry and former Chief Addiction Medicine Services at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. For more than 30 years Dr. Daley provided clinical services to persons with SUDs. His teaching and recovery materials are used throughout the US. This Podcast emphasizes that families of persons with SUDs are harmed and in need of psychological assistance because of their loved one’s serious problems. Family assistance strongly promotes and retains SUD patients in treatment.
Brant P. Hasler, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology. He is the PI of multiple NH research grants. These investigate changing adolescent sleep patterns, late bedtimes, early arising and consequent increased risk for substance abuse. Dr. Hasler is both a researcher and a clinician/mentor. Dr. Hasler’s “three-phase” research investigations involve home/school physiological monitoring, sleep studies as well as clinical interventions to change these patterns.
Dr. Jamie Tew is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. This Podcast describes his personal evolution from being a full-time clinical educator into his becoming a lead clinician administer at the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Presently he is Associate Chief of Clinical Services for Inpatient care, Quality, and Director of WPH’s Clinician Educator Faculty Development Program. This Podcast is especially pertinent for early Academic clinical faculty during subsequent periods of their growth and change.
Peter Franzen PhD. Is Associate Director for Education of the University of Pittsburgh Sleep and Chronobiology Center. This Podcast discusses teenagers shortened sleep during critical high school years, when teenagers must attend school at early times. These sleep changes affect teenager reactivity, emotion, stress, pleasure( anhedonia) cognition and substance use. Consequent to sleep research findings this Podcast also discusses controversial school based interventions to prevent negative outcomes.
1Judy Cameron PhD is a Professor of Psychiatry. This podcast describes ongoing leading public education, intervention and training programs derived from her previous extensive experimental neuroscience research in primate brain development.
Shaun Eack PhD is the James and Noel Browne Endowed Chair and Professor in Social Work and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. This Podcast describes his work on Cognitive Enhancement Therapy for persons with Schizophrenia and Autism. This work is a neurocognitive and social-cognitive rehabilitation program. Dr. Eack is presently preparing his positive research findings for application in community settings.
Dr. Kristine Wilckens PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and sleep researcher. She has a K01 Career Development Award from the NIH. It concerns Slow Wave Sleep and Executive Network Function in older adults. This Podcast reviews the stages of sleep focusing upon slow wave sleep, the deepest most restorative sleep pattern and its effect upon cognition, in essence brain health. Sleep moderates the relationship between amyloid beta and memory recall.
Our Guest , Abigail Schlesinger MD. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. She is the Chief , Behavioral Science Division. UPMC Children’s Hospital, also the Medical Director of TiPS (Telephonic Psychiatric Services). These expanding ambulatory integrated services are proximately provided within multi-group Pediatrician’s offices, presently, with TiPS, including 27 Pa. counties. Dr Schlesinger has devoted her career to improving how we talk to patients, assist other physicians and patients’ families.
“Resolve” is a governmentally funded free-standing, multi-purpose Crisis Center serving all persons in Allegheny County – The Center clients include the mentally ill and any persons/families under great stress - whatever their pressing concerns.
My guest is Associate Professor of Psychiatry Jack Rozel MD, President, American Association for Emergency Psychiatry.
Dr. Rozel is an expert on gun violence and the Medical Director for “Resolve”.
Maintaining the mental health of perinatal women is of great importance personally and for all of use. In this episode, we speak with Eydie Moses-Kolko, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and expert in women’s health and perinatal psychiatry. The rationale and approach of partial outpatient intensive treatment for such women is reviewed along with other integrated treatment approaches. Also discussed are core principles of collaboration in program planning.
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