News & Stories

Department news | March 30, 2023

The Center for Novel Therapeutics in Addiction Psychiatry (NTAP) led by Nathan Sackett, MD, MS, and supported by Andie Uomoto, MPA, is our latest initiative to become an official UW Research Center.

Department news | January 31, 2023

Over 75 researchers, clinicians, educators and supporters attended the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions second annual meeting held last week at South Lake Union.

UW News | January 23, 2023

A UW-led team including Dave Atkins, PhD, developed an AI system that suggested changes to participants’ responses to make them more empathetic. The researchers published their findings in Nature Machine Intelligence. Senior author Tim Althoff is funded by an Innovation Grant from the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions.

UW Medicine | January 4, 2023

A new donor-supported program aims to help coaches improve youth mental health. This work is partially supported by a Garvey Institute Innovation Grant (Adapting a resilience intervention for youth athletes).

Department news | November 30, 2022

A new Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry (BNNP) Fellowship Program, a joint collaboration between the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Neurology, has been officially approved by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties.

Department news | November 30, 2022

Thomas J Grabowski, MD, has been named the inaugural holder of the Tim B. Engle Endowed Professorship for Brain Health Innovations supported by the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions

The Huddle | November 23, 2022

The UW Medicine Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions is awarding over $1 million to develop and test innovative approaches to caring for adolescents and young adults with mental health and addiction problems. The focus on adolescent and young adult mental health was driven by the steadily increasing rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts in adolescents and young adults over the past decade.

Psychology Today | October 20, 2022

A new study published in Psychiatric Services by members of the BRiTE Center shows how AI natural language processing can detect cognitive disorders in texts as effectively as human clinicians. Authors include Justin Tauscher, PhD, MS, Ayesha Chander, MRes, Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI, and Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD. The work was supported by an innovation grant from the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions.

UW Medicine newsroom | October 11, 2022

Members of the BRiTE Center including Justin Tauscher, PhD, MS, Ayesha Chander, MRes, Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI, and Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, published findings in Psychiatric Services showing that algorithms are as good as trained human evaluators at identifying red-flag language in text messages from people with serious mental illness. The work was supported by an innovation grant from the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions.

Department news | September 29, 2022

Two recent grants to give a bit of a glimpse of the wide range of exciting work going on in the department’s research labs.