Our faculty publish actively on diverse subjects: psychosomatic issues, pain management, patient reporting and compliance behaviors, whole community and family roles in psychiatric conditions and treatment, teaching strategies and much more.
Michael Adragna, MD
Sengupta S, Adragna MS. Technological Strategies to Address Psychiatric Nonadherence. In: Fornari V., Dancyger I. (eds) Psychiatric Nonadherence: A Solutions-Based Approach (pp. 201-212). Springer, Cham. 2019
Leidenfrost CM, Randal, E, Scalco, M, Martin, P, Sinclair, SJ, Stewart, T, Schoelerman, R, & Antonius, D. Effectively assessing treatment needs in incarcerated seriously mentally ill individuals: the utility of the Personality Assessment Inventory - Level of Care Index.. Journal of Correctional Health Care.. 2018; 24
The search for more effective pharmacological treatments for mood disorders relies on a more thorough and accurate understanding of these disorders’ etiology.
The ongoing clinical study iCare seeks to identify how family stress and depression function as obstacles to adherence to treatment for patients with cystic fibrosis.
At our department’s one-of-a-kind Child and Family Asthma Studies Center, we study how stress and depression impact disease, using a laboratory-based stress paradigm.
Our faculty use the Child and Family Asthma Studies Center to study how family relations impact anxiety, depression and stress-related illness in children and adolescents.
We sustain a related program of research investigating the factors, especially neurobiological mechanisms, that contribute to the manifestation of violence in schizophrenia.
Faculty in the Division of Forensic Psychiatry study how psychological and neurobiological factors relate to criminal behavior in people with psychiatric illnesses.
Our faculty lead projects at the interdisciplinary Research Institute on Addictions, focusing on the relationships among alcohol abuse, violence and marital and family processes.
Our innovative program Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for Primary Care (CAP-PC) is evaluating a new model for providing child psychiatric consultation to pediatricians.
In this custom-designed psychophysiology lab, our faculty, residents and fellows study the mechanisms by which the mind affects the body in psychosomatic illness by measuring heart rate and heart rate variability under lab stress conditions.