In the News

Tarah M. Kuhn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, and Jon S. Ebert, Psy.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, were invited presenters for the Vanderbilt Multidisciplinary Perioperative Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement Conference in Langford Auditorium on Mar. 3.

D. Catherine Fuchs, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, served as co-editor for a publication of Child and Adolescent Psychaitry Clinics of North America titled "Transitional Age Youth and Mental Illness: Influences on Young Adult Outcomes." Citation:  Martel, A, Fuchs, DC, co-editors. Transitional Age Youth and Mental Illness: Influences on Young Adult Outcomes, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics of North America, April 2017, Volume 26, Issue 2. 

Michelle Failla, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, recently received a competitive Autism Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project on "Verbal and Nonverbal Responses to Physical Pain in ASD." Failla works with Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.

A new publication in press from the lab of Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, describes differences in interoceptive perceptual ability in individuals with autism as a function of age and cognitive ability. The article, "The development of interoceptive cognition in autism spectrum disorder and typical development," is now in press with the Journal of Cognitive Education & Psychology.

Paulomi Raiji Campbell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, has been selected to participate in Screening for Psychosocial Distress, a selective two-year training program developed by the American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS) and Yale School of Nursing. The goal is to implement screening and measure outcomes at the newly developed Psycho-Oncology program at Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center. Campbell was selected along with Rose VIck, MSN, PHMNP-BC, Instructor for the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, 

Karen Stewart, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and colleagues from Virginia Commonwealth University Institute of Drug and Alcohol Studies recently published a review article on impulsivity and smoking in patients with comorbid mental health concerns.

Kimberly Brown, Ph.D., ABPP, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, was recently published in the Journal of Personality Assessment. Brown served as co-author on the article "Use of the Personality Assessment Inventory in Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations of Physicians."
 
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Jenni Blackford, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, is currently investigating the role of the human BNST circuit in alcohol withdrawal in a study funded by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Serving as co-principal investigator alongside Dr. Blackford is Danny Winder, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and serving as co-investigator is Meg Benningfield, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics.

Heather Kreth, Psy.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, was recently nominated to the Youth Services Committee of the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems. Dr. Kreth is the Clinical Director of the Adult & Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Programs.

An invited report by Ariel Y. Deutch, Ph.D., James G. Blakemore Chair and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Pharmacology, was recently published by the DANA Foundation. Dr. Deutch was appointed of Associate Editor of npjSchizophrenia.
 
 Click here to read the DANA Foundation report, titled "Finding Clues to Schizophrenia Outside Neurons."