The insula: Leveraging cellular and systems-level research to better understand its roles in health and schizophrenia sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We're proud to present the 2024 Castle Connolly Top LGBTQ+ Doctors! castleconnolly.com/castle-connoll…

Please join us in congratulating Vanderbilt MSTP G3 Drew Kittleson who received the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award as part of the VU Graduate School Student Council Anchor Awards! Learn more about Drew's commitment to improving LGBTQIA+ health equity: bit.ly/4cBmW1b

To close out Pride Month & AY24, this Friday 6/28 at 12pm CT we welcome Dr. Aron Janssen, expert in transgender mental health, to review the current state of knowledge in assessment & care of gender diverse youth, and controversies in care. Watch live: vumc.org/psychiatry/gra…

Congratulations to Drew Kittleson (he/him) (G3) who was awarded a 2024 Graduate Leadership Anchor Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work advocating for and supporting the LGBTQ+ community at Vanderbilt! You can read more here: news.vanderbilt.edu/2024/06/17/gra…

Truly honored to announce I am now a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor and Physician-Scientist Vanderbilt Psychiatry Thank you to Dept Chair and mentor Stephan Heckers and @Warren_D_Taylor Roscoe Brady for their advocacy and support! Look out for 🤩🧲🧠 research from the WARD LAB!

Beyond excited to share this new paper in Biological Psychiatry identifying 🌟reproducible🌟 brain correlates 🧠of cognitive performance in psychosis that is the product of years of work, 27 coauthors 🥵, and the unparalleled mentorship of Roscoe Brady

Just performed the 1st🥇 ACCELERATED rTMS 🧠🧲🧲🧲🧲🧲🧠Vanderbilt Health, which was also in psychosis. So very proud of my lab Vanderbilt Psychiatry and taking the next step toward translating circuit-based interventions into the clinic

Does the brain change during pregnancy? You bet it does. How about doing 26 MRI scans on a single person pre-conception to 2 years post-partum. WOW! Laura Pritschet and colleagues nailed it with their new paper in Nature Neuroscience. Key Points: - The authors point out that pregnancy

It was an honor to host #SEMSS2024 as co-chair at Vanderbilt this past weekend. We had a great weekend with over 250 attendees. Very grateful for all the help from the SEMSS committee, the Vanderbilt MSTP leadership team and co-chair Kevin! UAB MSTP is hosting SEMSS 2025!

So glad to have the Vanderbilt family assembled Society for Research in Psychopathology! Not everyone here but the spirit was all! Photoshop work preparing :) #SRP2024

Cat ownership is associated with a 2x odds of developing schizophrenia. 🧵1/10

🚨We are hiring a ⭐️Research Assistant⭐️ to run rTMS 🧲🧠 clinical trials in people with substance use and psychosis Vanderbilt Psychiatry ! RAs get lots of clinical contact and experience with neuromodulation! Great for someone applying to MD or PhD programs! vumc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/vumccareers/jo…

Honored to receive this recognition from my Vanderbilt School of Medicine faculty and peers 😊 this wouldn’t be possible without the support I’ve received from my research and clinical mentors who help me work towards advancing LGBTQ mental health together! 🏳️‍🌈🧠

Thank you Psychiatric Times for the opportunity to share my work! Vanderbilt Psychiatry