Talked mental health and climate with Albany, California Mayor Ge’Nell Gary and Winona La Duke, Dr. Alan Barreca, Dr. Amanda Millstein, and Dr. Kathryn Conlon. Thank you Mayor Gary!  

A big THANKS to Mad in America for covering our research on family mental health and climate.  Read more here.

Thank you to Agnes Scott Sustainability Team for giving me the chance to discuss the impacts of climate change on maternal mental health. It was a great day in Decatur (the “Berkeley of the south”)!

Thank you to the Medical Society Consortium for Climate and Health for recognizing our work in the area of climate distress. Read more here: https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/champions-of-the-month/september-2021-champion/

“Paired sample t-tests assessed self-reported depression, anxiety, and maternal functioning and found statistically significant (p < 0.001) improvements across all domains (Table 3). ” Read more here.

“Improvement was observed on almost all of the domains of the WHODAS 2.0 and the BIMF, as well as on the PANSS negative and general psychopathology scales.” Read more here.  

Always an honor when your alma mater covers your work.  Read more here.

Read more here about our efforts to integrate reproductive psychiatry into the curriculum.

Long awaited results indicate a statistically significant difference in BIMF scores at day 45 (postpartum); women on Zuranolone were functioning better than those on placebo (on average): “In addition to assessing clinician-rated measures of depression, anxiety, and global function, the patient-reported BIMF scores were assessed for maternal function. Numerically greater increases in BIMF scores were…

School of Medicine professor examines impact of climate change on mental health