Best UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Podcasts (2024)

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Severe Anxiety in Older Adults and its Effects on Brain and Body Aging 37:36

2M ago37:36

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Carmen Andreescu is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. This podcast focusses on severe worry and anxiety in aged persons. Not all worry in aged persons is pathological. Severe worry includes dramatic effects on patient’s psychology, brain, and aging. These are characterized here as well as appropriate intervention/treatment no…

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Clarifying Subtypes of Depression: From Neural Circuits to Behavior 33:39

5M ago33:39

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Neil P. Jones Ph.D. is an expert on the spectrum of Depressions, including their diverse manifestations and impact on cognitive-behavioral processes, for example accompanying rumination, stress-related anxiety, and anhedonia. This podcast focuses on subtypes of depression relating to brain pathways.

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Mindfulness, Mood Lability, and The Brain in Youth at Risk: Neural and Behavioral Mechanisms 33:49

1+ y ago33:49

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Dr. Danella Hafeman MD, PHD is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Principal Investigator of a NIMH Sponsored Clinical Trial titled “Neurobehavior Targets of Mindfulness in Youth at Risk for Mood-Disorders.” This podcast focuses on research methodology, manifestations, instruction and mindfulness interventi…

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The Importance of Menopause for Womens’ Physical and Mental Health 38:09

1+ y ago38:09

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Rebecca Thurston PhD. is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is a National/International authority on Menopause. This Podcast describes her groundbreaking and continuing research (25 years) on Menopause. This episode includes its manifestations, women's experience, and impact on physical and mental health…

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Psycho-Oncology Center for Counseling and Cancer Support 38:09

1+ y ago38:09

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A cancer diagnosis and treatment can be difficult on both patients and their families emotionally. But support is available for people who need it. In this podcast, Robin Valpey, MD, medical director, Center for Counseling and Support, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, and Elizabeth Hale, MD, clinical assistant professor, Psychiatry, University of Pittsb…

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Treating Behavioral Manifestations Of Neurological Illness 44:17

1+ y ago44:17

44:17

This Podcast describes integrated care at UPMC/PITT between the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology. Psychiatric manifestations/treatment of Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Epilepsy, and Migraine are discussed with Morgan Faeder MD, PHD. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Director of Neuropsychiatry and Director of the Consul…

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The University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry Is Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 46:37

2y ago46:37

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The University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry is involved in efforts to promote and implement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). In this podcast, four faculty members offer brief presentations and discuss the importance of DEI. Guests include Sarah Pederson, PhD; Paul Pikonis, PhD; Piper Carroll, MD; and César Escobar-Viera, MD, PhD. T…

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Enhancing the Diagnosis for ADHD-Hyperactivity-By Mobile Sensing 32:03

2y ago32:03

32:03

Oliver Lindhiem PHD, Associate Professor/Psychiatry/Pediatrics is an expert in childhood diagnosis of behavioral disorders. This Podcast focuses on ADHD-Hyperactive Presentation. This diagnosis, its usual treatment (medication), has for many years been controversial. Thereby highly precise measurement is much needed here. This requires research to …

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Circadian Rhythms, What are They? How Do These Affect Psychiatric and Other Diseases (Disorders) 42:13

2y ago42:13

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Coleen McClung PHD is a nationally known researcher of Circadian Rhythms. She is funded by the NIMIH/NIDA/prominent Research Foundations. This Podcast focuses on these rhythms, present in all body/animal cells including humans. They are essential for life. Such rhythms may be altered in psychiatric disorders, e.g. Bi-Polar disorder, or other seriou…

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Adolescent Brain Development and Establishing Adult Trajectories 45:28

2+ y ago45:28

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Professor Bea Luna PHD is a nationally highly acclaimed NIMH- Funded psychologist, neuroscientist, teacher/mentor. Using multimodal brain imaging/learning methods she has pioneered in studying normal and atypical adolescent brain development from initiation to the onset of adulthood. These fascinating brain developments affected by adolescent exper…

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Substance Abuse (Marijuana) and Reproductive Health of Mothers and Their Children 45:33

2+ y ago45:33

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Dr. Natacha De Genna PHD is an Assistant Professor with longstanding acclaimed work relating to marijuana and nicotine use by pregnant mothers, how young age and mental health and discrimination may affect both mothers and their children post pregnancy. Her video “Mothers and Marijuana” is featured on the NIH Web Site. Like alcohol, paired maternal…

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Neuromodulation With Deep Brain Stimulation(DBS) for Alcohol Use Disorder 45:48

2+ y ago45:48

45:48

Khaled Moussawi MD, PHD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, is an experienced clinical neurologist and neuroscientist. This Podcast summarizes his research team’s efforts to identify and translate pre-clinical neurobiological findings into actionable clinical treatment protocols for alcohol and potentially other addictions. Deep Brain Stimulation, …

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Mother-Child Brain Synchrony - The Intergenerational Transmission of Depression 31:15

2+ y ago31:15

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Judith Morgan PhD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry. She observes mother-young child social interactions at play while simultaneously recording the brain cortical rhythms of each. Behaviors and neural responses of children at high risk for depression (their mothers are depressed) are compared with those of non-depressed mothers. This research gi…

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Neurofeedback for Depression - Amygdala Studies 28:47

2+ y ago28:47

28:47

Kymberly Young PhD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is an expert in brain science. Her 2017 article in the AJP, “Randomized Clinical Trial of Real-Time fMRI Amygdala Neurofeedback for Major Depressive Disorder: Effects on Symptoms and Autobiographical Memory Recall” is gaining attention. This Po…

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Sleep Disturbances in Schizophrenia and Psychosis 39:49

3y ago39:49

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Fabio Ferrarelli MD PHD, Director of the Sleep and Schizophrenia Program is Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focusses on how sleep spindles and slow waves differ among patients with chronic schizophrenia and/or acute psychosis relative to healthy individuals. These sleep…

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Bio-Behavioral Treatments for Depression and Anxiety: Leveraging Neuroplasticity 34:33

3y ago34:33

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Rebecca Price PhD is Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her innovative integrated research on brain plasticity coupled with computer based cognitive therapy has gained much visibility in the psychiatric literature and at Pitt where she has recently received the Chancellors Distinguis…

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Role of Motivational Interviewing in Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy 36:46

3y ago36:46

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Antoine Douaihy M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine. He is a recognized expert in motivational interviewing. Joining him is his intern in clinical Psychology, Cassie Boness MS. Vaccine hesitancy threatens nationally needed Covid herd immunity. Motivational interviewing is a very useful approach for enlisting reluctant persons in self-chang…

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Social Determinants of Racial Disparities in Alcohol problems prior to and during Covid 19 30:21

3y ago30:21

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Sarah L. Pederson PhD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry. She is a national authority on alcohol use and its more serious social/psychological problems. Her research work is remarkable for its multi-causal personal assessments, racial and otherwise, e.g. measurements of impulsivity and other personal characteristics associated with drinking both …

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The Placebo Effect 28:11

3y ago28:11

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Marta Pecina MD PhD. is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Translational Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Lab of the Department of Psychiatry and the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. This Podcast focuses on the Neurobiological basis of placebo effects. Placebos have great power. We explain how both expectation and conditioning genera…

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Brain Science, Clozapine and Early Intervention in Psychosis 35:19

3y ago35:19

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Dr. Deepak Sarpal is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry/Medical Director of Services for Treatment of Early Psychosis at WPH. This Podcast focuses upon Clozapine, a very valuable but underused treatment for refractory schizophrenia, also brain science involving functional imaging associated with patient improvement on anti-psychotic drugs. Findings …

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Center for Interventional Psychiatry 37:56

3+ y ago37:56

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Dr. Lalith Kumar K. Solai is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Pitt. He is the Architect/Director of the WPH Center for Interventional Psychiatry. It provides newer treatment modalities in psychiatry, especially for depressed patients refractory to conventional treatments, thus advancing new knowledge about these interventional treatments. This …

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Sleep and Cognition in Older Adults 22:31

3+ y ago22:31

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Dr. Kristine Wilckens PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and sleep researcher. She has a K01 Career Development Award from the NIH. It concerns Slow Wave Sleep and Executive Network Function in older adults. This Podcast reviews the stages of sleep focusing upon slow wave sleep, the deepest most restorative sleep pattern and its effect upo…

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Physician Well-being: Prior to and During Covid-19 35:31

3+ y ago35:31

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Sansea Jacobson, MD, is an associate psychiatry professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and director, UPMC Graduate Medical Education WELL Committee. More than 1,700 residents and fellows are in training at UPMC. This podcast discusses physician wellbeing both prior to and during COVID-19, including support systems and individual challenges. Des…

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Blended Collaborative Care for Treating Heart Failure and Co-Morbid Depression: Primary Findings from the Hopeful Heart Trial 34:09

3+ y ago34:09

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Dr. Bruce Rollman is the UPMC Endowed Chair in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. This Podcast describes his highly influential two decades of research in depression and cardiovascular care, including the “Hopeful Heart Trial”, his most recent NIH-funded study…

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The Pandemic Continues: Treating the Seriously Mentally Ill 35:20

3+ y ago35:20

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Roy Chengappa, MD, is professor of psychiatry and medical director/chief of Comprehensive Recovery Services at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. This service includes care for 5,000 to 10,000 serious, chronically mentally ill patients. Kimberly Clinebell, MD, is major clinician at the Pathways, a long-term structural residence and locked community…

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The Pandemic Continues: Non-Psychiatric/Psychiatric Crisis Services (resolve Crisis Services) 29:27

3+ y ago29:27

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Jack Rozel, MD, is associate professor of psychiatry and medical director at resolve Crisis Services. He is president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry. This podcast addresses the pandemic functioning of an established, multi-purpose, and community-based crisis center. Crises are not defined by the patient or family having a psyc…

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The Pandemic Continues: Addiction Services 29:09

3+ y ago29:09

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Dr. Jody Glance is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry/Medical Director of Addiction Services/ in-hospital and community. Providing a range of services for patients with addiction to substances has never been easy. This Podcast summarizes how, under Dr. Glance’ s leadership, treatment for patients continues despite difficulties. Changes in regulation…

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INFANT PSYCHIATRY/MENTAL HEALTH - THE MATILDA THEISS CENTER 28:43

3+ y ago28:43

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Dr. Paula Marie Powe is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry/Medical Director of Theiss Early Childhood and School-Based Behavioral Center. Her work involves analysis and intervention in infants 0-3 years old exposed to stress. potentially toxic stress. This type stress impacts later mental and physical health. Poor outcomes are not inevitable. Adapti…

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The Pandemic Continues: Telepsychiatry 29:59

3+ y ago29:59

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Gina Perez is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. She is Associate Chief /Behavioral Health Network and Telepsychiatry for UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. This Podcast, 2nd in this Pandemic Series, describes the considerable expansion and implications for the future of telepsychiatry in treating psychiatric patients. Not only in out-patient setti…

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The Pandemic: Leadership: Visibility and Communication Work 29:44

3+ y ago29:44

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Ken Nash MD is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. He is Chief Clinical Services at Western Psychiatry Hospital. This initial Podcast is the first of Five Podcasts relating to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic. It concerns Leadership for Change during the Pandemic to assure continuing treatment access for the Hospital’s in- patient…

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Healthcare System Wide Consultation-Liaison Services. 28:25

4y ago28:25

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Dr. Priya Gopalan is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh/UPMC. She directs system-wide consultations-liaison services. These provide in-person and telemedicine consultations for in-patients. This Podcast describes building such services that are inter-professional, involve teaching a large number of faculty, residents/fel…

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BIPOLAR SPECTRUM DISORDER IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS 37:36

4y ago37:36

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Boris Birmaher MD. is Endowed Chair- Early Onset Bipolar Disease/Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. This Podcast addresses two research questions: 1) Who among Children and Adolescents are at Risk to develop Bipolar Spectrum Disorder: 2) among patients who develop this disorder who is at risk for recurrence?…

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EVIDENCED BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS IN COMMUNITIES 24:49

4y ago24:49

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Shaun Eack PhD is the James and Noel Browne Endowed Chair and Professor in Social Work and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. This Podcast describes his work on Cognitive Enhancement Therapy for persons with Schizophrenia and Autism. This work is a neurocognitive and social-cognitive rehabilitation program. Dr. Eack is presently preparing …

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Early Life Experiences Shape Brain Development-Translational Sciences Implications 24:24

4y ago24:24

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Judy Cameron PhD is a Professor of Psychiatry. This podcast describes ongoing leading public education, intervention and training programs derived from her previous extensive experimental neuroscience research in primate brain development.

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Affect Among Teenagers - The Role of Sleep 22:37

4y ago22:37

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Peter Franzen PhD. Is Associate Director for Education of the University of Pittsburgh Sleep and Chronobiology Center. This Podcast discusses teenagers shortened sleep during critical high school years, when teenagers must attend school at early times. These sleep changes affect teenager reactivity, emotion, stress, pleasure( anhedonia) cognition a…

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Leadership Development for Academic Clinical/Educational Faculty Careers 28:04

4y ago28:04

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Dr. Jamie Tew is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. This Podcast describes his personal evolution from being a full-time clinical educator into his becoming a lead clinician administer at the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Presently he is Associate Chief of Clinical Services for Inpatient care, Quality, and Director of WPH’s Clinician Educat…

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Sleep, Circadian Rhythms and Risk For Adolescent Substance Abuse 26:14

4+ y ago26:14

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Brant P. Hasler, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology. He is the PI of multiple NH research grants. These investigate changing adolescent sleep patterns, late bedtimes, early arising and consequent increased risk for substance abuse. Dr. Hasler is both a researcher and a clinician/mentor. Dr. Hasler’s “three-phase” research inve…

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Strategies to Help Families and Children Harmed by a Loved One's Drug Addiction 22:48

4+ y ago22:48

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Dennis Daley PhD is Professor of Psychiatry and former Chief Addiction Medicine Services at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. For more than 30 years Dr. Daley provided clinical services to persons with SUDs. His teaching and recovery materials are used throughout the US. This Podcast emphasizes that families of persons with SUDs are harmed and in …

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Integrated Physical and Psychiatric/Behavioral Care in Pediatric Settings 23:12

4+ y ago23:12

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Our Guest , Abigail Schlesinger MD. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. She is the Chief , Behavioral Science Division. UPMC Children’s Hospital, also the Medical Director of TiPS (Telephonic Psychiatric Services). These expanding ambulatory integrated services are proximately provided within multi-group Pediatrician’s offices, presently, with…

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“Resolve” - A Unique Pittsburgh Crisis Center 22:58

4+ y ago22:58

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“Resolve” is a governmentally funded free-standing, multi-purpose Crisis Center serving all persons in Allegheny County – The Center clients include the mentally ill and any persons/families under great stress - whatever their pressing concerns. My guest is Associate Professor of Psychiatry Jack Rozel MD, President, American Association for Emergen…

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Intensive Mental Health Outpatient Treatment in Perinatal Women. 22:14

4+ y ago22:14

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Maintaining the mental health of perinatal women is of great importance personally and for all of use. In this episode, we speak with Eydie Moses-Kolko, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and expert in women’s health and perinatal psychiatry. The rationale and approach of partial outpatient intensive treatment for such women is reviewed along wi…

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Telepsychiatry - Growing and Useful 24:48

4+ y ago24:48

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Gina Perez, MD, is the Associate Chief of the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Behavioral Network. This includes Telepsychiatry not only for UPMC sites, but also for mental and behavioral health centers throughout Western PA including especially rural areas (16 locations/11 counties). This podcast episode focuses on this rapidly growing treatment …

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Integrated Care: The IBD Specialty Medical Home 28:03

5y ago28:03

28:03

Eva Szigethy, MD/PHD is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Director of Behavioral Health within the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Medical Home. Dr. Szigethy focuses her clinical and research interests on integrated medical-psychiatric care models for patients with chronic disease including inflammato…

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Medical Marijuana 28:01

5y ago28:01

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Antoine Douaihy, MD, is professor of Psychiatry and Medicine and senior academic director of Addiction Medical Services at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Medical marijuana is now approved for distribution in Pennsylvania, but it’s absent of controlled clinical trials. Marijuana use requires careful monitoring, i…

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Depression in Late Life/Risk for Dementia 21:45

5y ago21:45

21:45

Jordan Karp, MD, is professor of Psychiatry, Anesthesiology, and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Late-life depression may be brain “toxic.” This episode discusses geriatric depression and ongoing multi-site PCORI/NIH geriatric research about a treatment-resistant depression (…

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ADHD: Diagnosis/Treatment Course/Adult Presentations 21:06

5y ago21:06

21:06

Brooke S. G. Molina, PhD, is a professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Pediatrics at University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. She directs clinical research at the ADHD Across the Lifespan Program. This long-time longitudinal clinical research involves youth/adolescents and adult patients. This episode presents information on…

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