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Jenni Blackford, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, served as co-author for an article titled "Altered Prefrontal Cortex Function Marks Heightened Anxiety Risk in Children," which was recently published in the Journal of American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 

Jenni Blackford, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has been chosen to deliver the keynote address at the Inter-University Neuroscience And Mental Health in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Urbano will be presenting at the conference Sept. 20-21.

Wednesday is clinic day for Vanderbilt psychiatrist Sheryl Fleisch, M.D. The day is packed with patients, many with multiple physical and mental issues. Fleisch is dressed in jeans, a long-sleeved Vanderbilt T-shirt and a fleece jacket. She wears hiking shoes and carries a heavy backpack. There’s no white coat. No sterile hallway. No exam room. Her clinic is the street, and her patients are Nashville’s homeless.

Sheryl B. Fleisch, M.D., assistant professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, was recently selected as a 2016 recipient of the Early Career Development Award by the Association of Academic Psychiatry.

Blythe Corbett, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, served as lead author on the paper "Changes in anxiety following a randomized control trial of a theatre-based intervention for youth with autism spectrum disorder," recently published ahead of print in the journal Autism. The randomized clinical trial reports that youth with autism spectrum disorder showed changes in anxiety following participation in a peer-mediated, theatre-based intervention.

Michelle Failla, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow in Carissa Cascio's lab, was one of two postdocs selected to present her research at the Postdoctoral Association & Shared Resources Symposium in late April.  Failla used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as a ‘communication independent’ tool to measure pain responses and found that individuals with ASD seem to register pain in a similar manner as individuals without ASD.

Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, was one of several co-authors whose paper was recently published in the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. The paper, "A functional neuroimaging study of fusiform response to restricted interests in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder," can be found in the April 2016 edition of the journal.
 
 View the paper on BioMed Central.

Neil Woodward, Ph.D., and Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., Assistant Professors of Psychiatry, served as co-authors on a paper titled "Brain structure in autism: a voxel-based morphometry analysis of the Autism Brain Imaging Database Exchange (ABIDE)," published in the March 2016 issue of the journal Brain Imaging Behavior.

Adriana Kipper-Smith, Ph.D., HSP, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, is the lead author of a new article appearing in the International Journal of School & Education Psychology. The article is titled "Effects of biofeedback on distress in a university counseling center: Preliminary Results." Kipper-Smith is also a staff psychologist for Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Psychological and Counseling Center.

Divya Kannan, Ph.D., HSP, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Staff Psychologist, Psychological and Counseling Center, was recently interviewed by US News Health for an article titled "self-Criticism Can Be Psychologically Devastating -- How to Overcome It."