Study explores genetic risk for suicide attempt
Using data from the UK Biobank and Vanderbilt’s BioVU, a new study in the journal Molecular Psychiatry finds that approximately 4 percent of suicide attempt risk is captured by genotype data.
“Heritability estimates of this sort try to quantify the portion of a given trait that is contributed by genetics,” said Douglas Ruderfer, PhD, MS, the Vanderbilt University Medical Center geneticist who led the study.
Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program provides alternative to inpatient psychiatric care
Adolescents who are struggling with intense emotional, behavioral and social difficulties may find an alternate care path to an inpatient stay through Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital’s Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program.
The program, which runs weekdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., is a group-based model designed to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment services for patients who would normally be admitted to an inpatient unit.
VUMC Addiction Consultation Service sees rising demand
An Addiction Consultation Service, specialized training for physicians and changes in the language used in addiction cases are the first of many in a series of new clinical approaches being offered around addiction care as Vanderbilt University Medical Center — and the rest of the country — see an increased demand for such services.
Stovall provides psychiatric evaluations at Texas detention facility as part of Physicians for Human Rights
Jeffrey Stovall, M.D., associate professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and affiliate of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, was invited by Physicians for Human Rights to travel to the federal detention center in Dilley, TX, to provide psychiatric evaluations for women who have fled Central America and who are applying for asylum in the U.S.. These women had been recently reunited with their children from whom they were separated at the U.S. border.
Marcovitz co-directs course for American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry
David Marcovitz, Ph.D., assistant professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and medical director, Addiction Consult Team, is co-directing a four-hour course at the national meeting of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry titled "Practical Guide to Offering Office-Based Opioid Treatment." In addition, he is one of the co-authors for the paper " Correlates of Opioid Abstinence in a 42-Month Post-Treatment Naturalistic Follow-up Study of Prescription Opioid Dependence," currently in press for the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Brown invited to present at Tennessee Psychological Association on Violence and Mental Illness
Kimberly Brown, Ph.D., ABPP, associate professor of Clinical Psychiatry and director, Forensic Evaluation Team, was recently invited to present at a meeting of the Tennessee Psychological Association (TPA) on Violence and Mental Illness in November 2018. Brown was also featured in national news coverage for USA Today's newspaper article "Playing with Fire. Click here to read the article.
Becker publishes article on TMS use in adolescents
Jonathan Becker, D.O., assistant professor of Clinical Psychiatry, recently published his paper "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Conditions Other than Major Depressive Disorder" in the journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.
Click here to view the abstract.
