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In the News
Congratulations to Fred Blow, Ph.D., 2009 Dean's Awardee for 2009 for Clinical & Health Services Research
The University of Michigan loses internationally renowned biological psychiatrist to leukemia
Lisa Seyfried has been awarded the Dlin/Fischer Clinical Research Award
Sex differences seen in response to common antidepressant
U-M to renovate and expand hospital-based psychiatric facilities & programs
High anxiety? U-M research looks to brain & genes to improve treatment
Depression diversity: Brain studies reveal big differences among individuals
The U-M Department of Psychiatry
is part of the University of Michigan Health System, one of the nation's leading health care facilities, and is home to the nation's first comprehensive Depression Center and the Molecular and Behavioral Neurosciences Institute.
We provide patients with state-of-the-art treatment and care of psychiatric disorders, much of it based on the innovative research done by our faculty. Our psychiatric care facility is one of the best in the country, and was one of the very first to provide modern diagnosis and research on mental disorders.
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Highlights
Maternal depression is associated with significant sleep disturbance
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Epilepsy drug may help alcoholics recover from dependence
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Findings suggest that parents, especially ones with a history of depression, should pay close attention to the conditions they create for their infant’s sleep.
The study, published in the August issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, suggests that the drug gabapentin might be able to reduce insomnia in recovering alcoholics, and help them stay away from alcohol more successfully.
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