Researchers at University of Utah Health studied brain biopsies of multiple sclerosis patients and identified 29 microbes from 11 different phyla within the tissue. This approach offers a new way to study this disease. ... Read More
Researchers at the University of Utah Health conducted the first population-based study of suicidality in individuals with ASD in the United States. The 20-year retrospective study found that for individuals with autism, particularly females, the risk of suicide has increased through time compared to their non-autistic peers. ... Read More
The University of Utah’s Department of Psychiatry was awarded a $2 million, four-year grant from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to enhance the capacity of the Utah Registry of Autism and Developmental Disabilities (URADD).... Read More
We all strive to be happy, but sometimes events in your life can bring you down. Did last year not go as well as you were hoping? Wondering how you could be happier in the new year? Psychiatrist Anne Lin says a negative outlook will set you up for failure, so it’s important to stay positive when that calendar changes. Dr. Lin shares some helpful strategies to avoid dangerous thinking errors, and keep your outlook positive and productive this year.... Read More
Highlighting investigators and their pioneering research programs, the Vitae program seeds new collaborations and development strategies by humanizing research through story.... Read More
Researchers at University of Utah Health wanted to know if adversity during childhood rewired the brain, increasing vulnerability to mood disorders later in life. ... Read More
Researchers at University of Utah Health identified four gene changes that occur more frequently in people who died by suicide that may point to increased risk in vulnerable individuals. ... Read More
New physician, Seth Knight, MD, joins the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Knight will be providing full-time outpatient psychiatric care to adults at the Farmington Behavioral Health Clinic... Read More
Researchers at University of Utah Health found that ADHD patients had an increased risk of developing Parkinson’s and Parkinson-like diseases than individuals with no ADHD history. ... Read More
New physician, Kristina Purganan, DO, Join, joins the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Purganan will be provide outpatient care to adults at University Neuropsychiatric Institute Downtown Behavioral Health Clinic. ... Read More
New physician, Varsha Iyer, MD, joins the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Iyer will be working at University Neuropsychiatric Institute's child and adolescent inpatient unit. ... Read More
TWo new faculty join the Department of Psychiatry. Kristin R. Becker, DO, MS, as an Instructor (Clinical) and Krisitina J. Cottle Feldman, PhD, also as an Instructor (Clinical)... Read More
Patricia Aguayo, MD, PhD has been appointed as the new medical director of UNI’s Neurobehaivor HOME Program and the Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinic (ASDC)... Read More
The Second Annual University of Utah Translational Hypertension Symposium assembles national experts in hypertension treatment and research. ... Read More
Three new faculty join the Department of Psychiatry. Melissa Mott, MD, PhD, as an Instructor (Clinical). Jeremy Stoddart, MD, as an Assisstant Professor (Clinical). And Rong Xiao, MD, PhD, as an Assistant Professor (Clinical). ... Read More