Back-to-School Anxiety: Tips for Kids and Parents
Helping your child prepare for the “unknowns” can help both of you feel more comfortable.
Anxiety, Mental Health, School-Age Children
Tag: Psychiatry
Researchers use MRIs to predict which high-risk babies will develop...
This first-of-its-kind study used MRIs to image the brains of infants, and then researchers used brain measurements and a computer algorithm to accurately predict autism before symptoms set in.
Autism, Research, Technology
Online group therapy may be effective treatment for bulimia nervosa
Study led by UNC researchers compared group therapy delivered via online chat to face-to-face group therapy
Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Treatment
Anorexia is Not a Choice
Researchers at the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders and around the world continue to study the genetics of the disease while treating patients in desperate need of help.
Genetics, Kids and Mental Health
Pignone featured by U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
UNC's Dr. Michael Pignone is featured in two videos, a press release and a podcast discussing the Task Force's recommendation that clinicians should screen all adults, including pregnant women and new mothers, for depression.
Awards
Study Finds Surprising Links Between Bullying and Eating Disorders
According to new research from Duke and UNC, both victims of bullying and the bullies themselves could be at risk psychologically for anxiety, depression and eating disorders.
Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Nutrition
Puppies: The Power of Cute for Mental Health
The UNC PAWS program of the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health trains puppies for 10 weeks and then matches each puppy with a veteran suffering from PTSD.
Mental Health
Popular electric brain stimulation method detrimental to IQ scores
In a double-blinded, randomized study, UNC researchers found that the IQ scores of people who underwent tDCS brain stimulation improved markedly less than did the IQ scores of people in the placebo group.
Neurology, Research, Treatment
Scientists use brain stimulation to boost creativity, set stage to ...
Using a weak electric current to alter a specific brain activity pattern, UNC School of Medicine researchers increased creativity in healthy adults. Now they’re testing the same experimental protocol to alleviate symptoms in people with depression.
Mental Health, Neurology, Research, Treatment
New deep-brain imaging reveals separate functions for nearly identi...
For the first time, UNC neuroscientist Garret Stuber, PhD, imaged activity patterns of individual brain cells in freely moving mice to link specific basic behaviors to particular neurons.
Neurology, Research
Women who experience postpartum depression symptoms before giving b...
Postpartum depression (PPD) may have a diverse clinical presentation and this has critical implications for diagnosis, treatment and understanding the underlying biology of the illness, a new study finds.
Mental Health, Pregnancy and Maternal Health, Studies
Autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder may share common underly...
New research led by Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, a psychiatric geneticist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, points to an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders among individuals whose parents or siblings have been diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
Genetics, Innovation, Mental Health, Research