Krystal Parker, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, received a five-year, $2.1 million National Institute of Mental Health grant to study the cerebellum and its role in cognitive function.
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Pictured above: Staff from Scooter's Coffee locations in Cedar Rapids, Mollie Tibbetts' mother Laura Calderwood, and faculty members in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Mollie Tibbetts’ family has been committed to upholding her legacy of helping others and her passion for child psychology by...
The Department of Psychiatry is opening a 24-hour Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) specifically designed for people experiencing an emotional crisis or psychiatric emergency. The calm, comfortable, and inviting space will feature reclining chairs instead of hospital beds and a care team dedicated to...
Pictured Above: Iowa City producers Sadie Elbert, Amanda Heeren, and Aleksandra Vujicic A group of Iowa City locals will share powerful monologues, original poetry, and music based on the real struggles and triumphs of living with a mental illness in the community’s rendition of This is My Brave ...
A single gene that may play a key role in human intelligence is also the cause of a devastating brain disease that impedes mobility and diminishes cognitive thinking, according to research conducted at the University of Iowa. Peg Nopoulos, MD Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Pediatrics Chair...
Hildegard Janouschek, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, recently moved to Iowa from Aachen, Germany to join the Iowa Neuroscience Institute (INI). Dr. Janouschek has taken on a unique role at UI Healthcare as the only dually-trained physician-scientist in psychiatry and neurology. Hildegard...
A German researcher and clinician, who recently joined the Psychiatry faculty and Iowa Neuroscience Institute (INI), is combining genetics and neuroimaging to investigate how brain structure is altered in autism and schizophrenia. “It is absolutely intriguing to me that psychiatric disorders have a...
By Aleksandra Vujicic Although brain research has seen many major advancements over the past few decades, neuroscientists still face a huge limitation in not having access to human brain tissue for molecular and genetic research. Until recently, researchers had to rely on post-mortem brains or...
Treatment-resistant depression can be very debilitating for patients who have tried a number of different antidepressants with no relief. Mark Niciu , MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and one of the newest members of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute , is studying the antidepressant...
Kepler Porterfield is a spunky 5-year-old who’s fascinated by fire alarms. He likes to go exploring downtown, looking for buildings with the most accessible fire alarms; once he even pulled the red trigger at his school, setting off a piercing siren. “He thought it was funny, but he’s in preschool...