Results for "psychiatry"

Projects

Psychotherapy Effects on Reward Processing in PTSD (PERPP)

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The purpose of this study is to identify how trauma-focused psychotherapy changes the function of brain circuitry in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and how this mediates improvements in the diminished ability…

Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network

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The objective of this study is to build the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network to…

Interneurons differentially regulate discrete pathways from ventral hippocampus

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Hippocampal microcircuits are comprised of excitatory pyramidal cells, which integrate information and innervate downstream brain regions, and inhibitory interneurons, which function locally to regulate pyramidal…

Undergraduate Research in the UT Biomedical Informatics Lab

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The mission of the Biomedical Informatics Lab is to design decision support systems for clinical decision making and scientific discovery. We seek opportunities to advance health-related quality of life and health…

Faculty

Josh Cisler

Affiliated Departments:
Dell Medical School, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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The overarching goal of our research is to understand the neurocircuitry that confers risk for psychopathology following traumatic event exposure. Existing neurocircuitry models of PTSD and trauma exposure mainly…

Jennifer Jane Donegan

Affiliated Departments:
Dell Medical School
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The Donegan lab aims to understand how stress across the lifetime affects the anatomy and function of neural circuits associated with psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia. We use multiple techniques,…

Greg Anthony Fonzo

Affiliated Departments:
Psychology, Dell Medical School
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The overarching goals of Dr. Fonzo's work are:

A) To develop a brain-based scientific framework to characterize the emotional disturbances arising from trauma and stress, utilizing cutting-edge scientific non…

Kimberly Kjome

Affiliated Departments:
Dell Medical School
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I am an assistant professor at UT DMS, and have had numerous clinical, educational and administrative roles. I have served as site investigator for research projects at Shoal Creek, as well as serving at site…

D Jeffrey Newport

Affiliated Departments:
Dell Medical School, Women's Health, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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The first of my two areas of research focus is reproductive psychiatry with a particular emphasis on the course and neurobiology of psychiatric illness and substance use disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum…