Category: Psychiatry

Impact of the APOE Alzheimer’s risk variant on the newborn brain. Blue clusters show decreased brain volumes in newborns with the risk variant. Similar decreases in this brain area

January 3, 2013

Risk genes for Alzheimer’s and mental illness linked to brain chang...

This study by UNC School of Medicine researchers is the first to report the impact of common gene variants on brain structure in newborns.

Alzheimer's, Genetics, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Publications, Research

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September 14, 2011

UNC opens first inpatient perinatal psychiatry unit in U.S.

The UNC Department of Psychiatry and the UNC Center for Women's Mood Disorders have opened a 5-bed unit for women with moderate to severe post-partum depression (PPD). The unit is the first of its kind in the United States.

Innovation, Mental Health, Psychiatry

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