Department of Psychiatry

This project piloted a telehealth-delivered cognitive rehabilitation intervention, Motivationally Enhanced Compensatory Cognitive Training for Addictions (ME-CCT-A), to s [...]

This project assessed knowledge and provided educational interventions for clinicians working with methamphetamine users. It is grounded in a harm reduction framework.

Depression rates are climbing, and the etiology is multi-factorial. The overarching goal of the present work is to examine specific neurobiological and psychosocial risk [...]

Early adolescence can be a tumultuous transition period for many, and as such, suicide risk in this age range is heightened compared to earlier ages. By age 12, suicide i [...]

Obtaining informed consent is a mandated research practice and is necessary for maintaining the health and safety of all research subjects. Pediatric research requires pa [...]

Negative affect (NA), the propensity to experience negative emotions, emerges during early infancy and is an indicator of vulnerability for developmental psychopathology. [...]

Studies examining the association between laboratory-based assessments of risk-taking propensity and alcohol use have produced mixed results. Heterogeneity in the existin [...]

Effective treatments for methamphetamine (MA)-use disorder (MUD) are critically needed. Treatment outcomes, however, are variable, especially for women, as sex difference [...]

Delay discounting, or the preference for smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards, has been associated with numerous psychological disorders, including sub [...]

Increasing evidence suggests that greater maternal adiposity during pregnancy is related to offspring risk for mental health disorders, although the mechanisms through wh [...]