UI CDR pushes the edge of what is possible.
We help teachers to better manage disruptive classrooms, make the wounds of PTSD visible, and search for signs of depression in the blood stream. We are committed to new strategies, new treatments, novel approaches to the most vexing mental health issues of our time.
UI CDR is making this happen. We reorganized departments, research centers, and clinical groups across campus to make this a reality. We are networked with likeminded centers throughout the country who share this same vision to realize tomorrow’s medicine today.
Thinking creatively about pioneering solutions has a long running history at UIC. Our Department of Psychiatry contributed to over a century of firsts: the first children’s guidance center, the first community-based approaches to psychology, the first electroencephalogram (EEG), and the first use of meta-analysis as a tool to pool scientific data.
Today, UI CDR is keeping this legacy alive through a commitment to pioneering research. From technology based interventions—smart phones, websites, text messaging, tablets—that provide an alternative to the traditional clinical model to training physicians, social workers, midwives, teachers, coaches, attendees, and others to provide frontline mental health opportunities. UI CDR pushes the edge of what is possible.
A chaotic family life is detrimental to health outcomes for children with severe asthma, new research shows. These were the results of a new study led by Dr. Sally Weinstein, Associate Director of the UICDR and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, UIC College of Medicine, published in a recent issue of Pediatrics (click here for the study)
The UI Center on Depression and Resilience-Digital Mental Health Initiative’s development of artificial intelligence apps are revolutionizing the digital mental health industry, empowering patients and addressing the nation’s mental health crisis.
Child and Family-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
The Wall Street Journal published a story on BiAffect, the phone app designed to predict and monitor manic and depressive episodes. Dr. Alex Leow and Dr.
The Wall Street Journal published a story on BiAffect, the phone app designed to predict and monitor manic and depressive episodes. Dr. Alex Leow and Dr.
The Wall Street Journal published a story on BiAffect, the phone app designed to predict and monitor manic and depressive episodes. Dr. Alex Leow and Dr.
Death by suicide in the U.S. rose by more than 25 percent between 1999 and 2006. Dr.
Doctor Alex Leow, associate professor of psychiatry in the UIC College of Medicine and associate professor of bioengineering and computer science, and Peter Nelson, professor of computer science and dean of the UIC College of Engineering, discussed their award-winning app, BiAffect, on Chicago To
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Dr. Rasenick’s work has focused on G protein signaling in the nervous system and the relationship of neurotransmitter activation to rapid modification of the cytoskeleton.
Joining the University in 2009, Dr. Leow received clinical training in Psychiatry and research training in biomedical imaging, both at UCLA. Having co-authored more than 70 articles, Dr. Leow's current research interests focus on developing novel probabilistic reconstruction, tractography, and network analyses techniques for high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) and their clinical applications.
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Menstruation profoundly affects the body and mind in myriad ways.
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The Department of Psychiatry’s highly anticipated 14th Annual Research Forum Extravaganza was held on October 11th, 2023, a yearly tradition to showcase the exciting p
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The UIC Department of Psychiatry gathered for the annual Dr.
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Women in medicine: Pipeline development with five future leaders in academic psychiatry at UIC
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Like food deserts, where communities are deprived of adequate food resources, “mental health care deserts” also exist, where communities do not have access to qu
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Fear, anger, distress, and helplessness.
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Researchers led by the UICDR’s Mark Rasenick have discovered and successfully identified the biomarker for depression.
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Established in 1909, The UIC Psychiatry Department’s Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR) was the first child mental health clinic in the nation.
