In the News

Warren D. Taylor, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, has two publications in recent print. An editorial titled "Moderators of remission in late-life depression: Where do we go next?" appears in JAMA Psychiatry as of Mar. 9, 2016.

The Vanderbilt Comprehensive Assessment Program and the Institute For Behavior and Health, Inc., in Rockville, MD, recently published a study spearheaded by Reid Finlayson, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry,  addressing whether the high rates of physician suicide may result from association with Physician Health Programs, which suggests that the programs are more likely beneficial.  Dr.

Lawrence S. Gaines, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, will soon be published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. His paper is titled "Association between affective-cognitive symptoms of depression and exacerbation of Crohn's Disease." Affective-cognitive symptoms of depression predicted subsequent Crohn's disease activity and hospitalization rate, suggesting a temporal relationship.

Warren Taylor, M.D., MHSc, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, served as lead author on a paper titled "APOE ε4 associated with preserved executive function
 performance and maintenance of temporal and cingulate brain volumes in younger adults" in the journal Brain Imaging & Behavior.  According to the abstract, the APOE ε4 allele is associated with cognitive deficits and brain atrophy in older adults, but studies in younger adults are mixed.  The ε4 allele benefits younger adults

D. Catherine Fuchs, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, was among a team of researchers who developed "The Preschool Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU: Valid and Reliable Delirium Monitoring for Critically Ill Infants and Children." The paper will be published in the journal Critical Care Medicine and is available to review online ahead of print.

Reid Finlayson, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, recently spoke to the members of the Nashville chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Dr. Finlayson presented a talk titled "Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorders on Nov. 18 at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital.

Peter R. Martin, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology and Director of the Vanderbilt Addiction Center, and Reid Finlayson, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, serves as authors for the paper "Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy in Tennessee: Expediency vs. Science," recently published online ahead of print in The American Journal of Drug & Alcohol Abuse. 
 
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Volney P. Gay, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Religious Studies, and Anthropology, has been asked by the Huffington Post to blog on the topics of psychology and religion. Dr. Gay's blogs will be published every two to three weeks. Two of his recent blog posts may be found here and here.
  

VUMC has received a $9.4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to test the effectiveness of a transdermal nicotine patch in improving memory loss in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease. Paul Newhouse, M.D., professor of Psychiatry and director of the Center for Cognitive Medicine at VUMC, is the co-principal investigator of the study that is being launched in conjunction with the Alzheimer’s Treatment Research Institute at the University of Southern California, Indiana University and the University of Vermont.

Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and her lab members recently had one of their posters covered by Spectrum News (a press outlet associated with the Simons Foundation for Research) during the group's participation on the 2015 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Chicago recently.