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A New Angle on Anxiety

September 6, 2016

BOSTON – Clinical anxiety affects up to 30 percent of Americans who are in great need of better treatments with fewer side effects. A study from Boston Children’s Hospital, published September 6 by the journal Molecular Psychiatry, finds that certain neurons in the hypothalamus play a central, previously unknown role in triggering anxiety. Targeting them, rather than the whole brain, could potentially provide a more effective treatment for anxiety and perhaps other psychiatric disorders, say researchers...

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Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency to Separate into Two Distinct Training Programs

August 1, 2016

Beginning in July 2017, the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency will separate into two distinct training programs.  Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, two of the core training sites for the current program will each launch new training programs in July of 2017. Each program will accept ten residents per year and will participate in the 2016 NRMP.
 
The current Longwood residents will participate in the new training programs and will complete their Longwood training in 2020.  Christie Sams, MD and Robert Boland, MD, the current...

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2016 HMS Faculty Research Awards

July 25, 2016

 

The Executive Committee of the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, would like to acknowledge and congratulate the trainees and faculty who received the following HMS Psychiatry Research Awards and Fellowships during the 2016 academic year.  It is a marvelous way to celebrate our vibrant combined academic community.
 

Stuart Hauser Mentorship Award - The yearly Award is given to a faculty member(s) at Harvard Medical School for outstanding sustained mentorship of medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty in...

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2016 Kettyle and Borus Teaching Award Recipients Announced

April 26, 2016

Lior Givon, Ph.D., M.D. received the Cynthia N. Kettyle Teaching Award and Heather Vestal, M.D. was awarded the Jonathan F. Borus Outstanding Early Career Educator Award at the Symposium on Medical Student Education in Psychiatry on April 26th, 2016.

The Cynthia N. Kettyle Teaching Award for medical student education in psychiatry has been presented annually since 2004 to HMS faculty members who have inspired medical students by their warmth, character and dedication to medical student teaching in psychiatry...

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Harvard Medical School Honors CHA Psychiatrist with Diversity Award

April 6, 2016

 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Marshall Forstein, MD, interim chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was named a recipient of the 2016 Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award presented by HMS. The award honors HMS faculty members who have made significant achievements in cultivating a diverse and inclusive environment.

Joan Reede, MD, MPH...

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Inpatient Program for Delirium, Alcohol Withdrawal and Suicide/Harm Reduces Readmission Rates

January 15, 2016

Clinicians regularly face challenges delivering comprehensive psychological and medical care to patients with complex conditions, such as delirium, alcohol withdrawal, suicide risk, and potential harm to others (DASH). Although these problems can affect patients at any age, they are particularly common among the elderly.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) has achieved measurable improvements in reducing readmission rates among this population with the development of a multidisciplinary effort led by the departments of medicine, nursing and psychiatry to improve care and outcomes for...

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Advances in Imaging Technology Developed at BWH Reveal "Invisible Injuries"

December 23, 2015

 

The long-term neuropsychiatric consequences of repeated mild traumatic brain injury, and specifically sports-related concussive and sub-concussive head impacts, to football players has been an active area of research at the lab of Martha Shenton, PhD, Director, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. For decades, she and her colleagues have been investigating the role of brain abnormalities in schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),...

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