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Sensor Lab Seed Grants Support State-of-the-Art Research

The UArizona Health Sciences Sensor Lab awarded seed grants to eight faculty members and two student projects to improve health and wellness.


Sleep awareness and health

KGUN 9 interviews Scott Killgore, PhD, the Director of the Psychiatry Department's Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience lab about how blue light therapy is one way to get a good night's sleep.


Do you have COVID rage?

Dr. Kyle Suhr is a psychologist at Banner University Medical Center who has been studying anger for years. KGUN 9 interviews him about what people are calling "COVID rage."


Elisa Gumm, DO
Psychiatry for Primary Care: An Update on Substance Use Disorders (Part 4)

The data on substance use disorders are staggering. What can primary care providers do to help?


Kimberly Van Orden, PhD
Psychiatry for Primary Care: Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention (Part 3)

In the absence of definitive data, how can primary care providers help prevent suicide and provide compassionate care that promotes quality of life in their patients?


Jeffrey Newcorn, MD
Psychiatry for Primary Care: An Update on ADHD (Part 2)

Being able to identify ADHD in medical settings is very important. One doctor will offer some guidelines for diagnosis and treatment during the Psychiatry for Non-Psychiatrists conference.


 Jordan F. Karp, MD
Psychiatry for Primary Care: A Behavioral Medicine Update (Part 1)

Primary care providers are increasingly seeing patients who are struggling with mental illness—how can they effectively assist these patients? (This is the first part of a 4-part series that ran in The Psychiatric Times.)


March Proclaimed as “Arizonans in Health Research Month”

Arizona leads the nation in enrolling participants in the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program.


Jacquelin Esque, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Medicine – Tucson.
Mental Health Experts Helping Teens Burdened by the Pandemic

While the isolation and stress of the pandemic has affected overall mental health, Health Sciences experts say teenagers have been hit particularly hard.


Physician, Heal Thyself With Sleep

The Psychiatric Times interviews Psychiatry Department researchers Michael Grandner, PhD, and Scott Killgore, PhD, about sleep deprivation among health care professionals


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