UMass Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Join us this Thursday, March 20th at noon for #GrandRounds. This week's topic is "Social Justice Advocacy Project: Anti-racist and Gender Inclusive Curriculum for PreK Students in Community Programs" presented by Emily Padilla, PhD, and Heidi Putney, PhD. To find out how you can join this free educational presentation, visit https://lnkd.in/eTjsW3Sf #InclusionMatters #Curriculum #Advocacy

Join us this Thursday, March 13th at noon for another #GrandRounds. This week we will have two presenters, Meirong You, PsyD, and Gabriella Wilkinson PsyD. They will be discussing harm reduction in psychotherapy. To find out how to join for free, please visit https://lnkd.in/eTjsW3Sf #Psychotherapy #Education #HarmReduction

I am thrilled to be presenting at the UMass conference on empowering caregivers victims of violence in medical settings. I will be sharing core concepts of Trauma-Informed Care and how to implement them in the care of our patients.

New Publication, "Sex-specific Concordance of Striatal Transcriptional Signatures of Opioid Addiction in Human and Rodent Brains" @SOBP @BiologicalPsyc1 Global Open Science Productive collaboration with Marianne Seney, Abraham Palmer, Joseph Seggio, Julie Blendy, and Olivier George - many others! Contributions from Julie Michaud, Mackenzie Gamble, Benjamin Williams, Madeline Kuppe Fish, BaDoi Phan, Darrell Eacret, and other key players! #Opioid #addiction, known as opioid use disorder (#OUD), causes lasting changes in the brain's nucleus accumbens (NAc), and these changes differ between men and women. In women with OUD, the brain alterations look like those in female rodents forced to take opioids, persisting whether they’re still using or have quit, while in men, the changes match those in rodents that chose to take opioids, but only right after stopping (acute withdrawal). Both humans and animals show similar shifts in how genes are regulated, revealing that opioid addiction disrupts key brain processes and highlighting the need for #sex-specific treatment approaches. UMass Chan Medical School UMass Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry UC San Diego https://lnkd.in/et3c9ig2

This Friday is #RareDiseaseDay. Understand what it is like to raise a child who has a rare disease. ?? Listen to Rare Diseases, Real Stories on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. https://lnkd.in/dSz9MXaB #UMassChan #RareDiseasesRealStories. Thank you!!! Jo Kaur Blyth Lord Richie DiGeorge Tommy Pham ?? Lee Greenwood Jennifer Siedman Courageous Parents Network Anna Laidlaw Richard Laidlaw UMass Chan Medical School Jennifer Berryman Bryan Goodchild

We wanted to figure out how opioid drugs like morphine affect different parts of the brain over time and why males and females might respond differently, so they studied mice using a special technique to see the whole brain in detail. We gave morphine to male and female mice and used a marker called c-Fos to spot active brain areas, checking them at 1 hour and 4 hours after the dose with a high-tech microscope. We discovered that morphine impacts more brain areas at 4 hours than at 1 hour, with males showing bigger changes in reward-related areas (linked to dopamine) and females showing more changes in thinking and decision-making areas (the cortex). This study helps explain how opioids work differently in the brain depending on time and sex, which could improve how we treat pain or addiction in the future. Brand new preprint from our group and the fearless Zach Freyberg and tenacious Alan Watson! With fantasticc collaborations from Steph Gallas Puig and many others Novel approach for high-throughput registration and mapping of whole brain imaging in mouse using advanced informatics and high-resolution ribbon scanning microscopy #microscopy #ribbonscanningconfocal #lightsheet #wholebrainimaging #machinelearning #cfos Driven by the tremendous work from postdoc, Iaroslavna Vasylieva! UMass Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UMass Chan Medical School University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) https://lnkd.in/dGR7PWHQ

Join us this Thursday at for a free presentation of?#GrandRounds.? Naillil Torres-Moreno, MD, will be discussing the impact of loneliness on the mental health of the elderly. To find out how you can join this free presentation, please visit:?https://lnkd.in/eTjsW3Sf #Loneliness?#Education?#MentalHealth UMass Chan Medical School

?? Carve out time this week to listen to Riaan's story. The Rare Diseases, Real Stories podcast highlights the voices of people impacted by rare diseases, and the importance of research funding right now! https://lnkd.in/eaaR-eq3 Jo Kaur #podcast #UMassChan #RareDiseaseDay

Research is critical for finding cures for everything from #Cancer to #MentalHealthIssues. Recently, Ryan Logan, PhD, a professor of #Psychiatry and a #Neurobiologist UMass Chan Medical School, found a connection between poor sleep and relapses in #OpioidUseDisorder. His research identified molecular changes in the brain associated with psychiatric disorders including opioid use. These changes lead to a disruption in circadian rhythms and ultimately to poor sleep, which increases the chances of a patient returning to substance use. This finding will lead to medicinal treatments that can improve sleep in this population thereby reducing recidivism in Opioid Use Disorder as well as help others suffering from various #MentalHealthIssues. #ResearchMatters #ResearchSavesLives https://lnkd.in/eQZwHjWg

Here at the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences we are making strides in the treatment of opioid use disorder as well as in limiting it's harmful effects on all patients including pregnant women. #OpioidUseDisorder #PretermDelivery #Research