UIC Department of Psychiatry
Learn MoreAnna Arzuaga, Daisy D. Edmison,, Jessica Mroczek, John Larson and Michael E. Ragozzino. Prenatal stress and fluoxetine exposure in mice differentially affect repetitive behaviors and synaptic plasticity in adult male and female offspring. Behavioural Brain Research, 436 (2023) Article 114114.
Dr. Judith Cook and colleagues published the most rigorous study to date of peer-delivered Individual Placement and Support supported employment services suggesting that it achieves better employment outcomes compared with peer-delivered generic vocational services.
The paper demonstrates the role of extracellular glutamate and the glutamate antiporter system xc- in brain responses to ischemic stroke.
Interpersonal management of homophobic stigma is an understudied area of resilience among sexual minority people. In this study, Dr. Judith Cook and colleagues validated a unidimensional scale to assess homophobia management among sexual minority males in midlife and older adulthood.
Dr. Cope Feurer joined the UIC Department of Psychiatry faculty on 9/15/22 after completing her T32 postdoctoral fellowship.
Certified peer specialists are a growing workforce that uses their lived experience of a behavioral health disorders plus skills learned in formal training to deliver support services. Despite their important role in the mental health care system and research on their working conditions, their experiences of burnout have not been widely studied. Dr.