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“I’ve seen in the field more death in the last one to two years than in my whole career,” said Dr. Scott Teitelbaum

October 2nd - 8th is Mental Illness Awareness Week. Join us in shining a light on mental illness and replacing stigma with hope. Check out our calendar of events for MIAW 2016!

The DEA is warning people about one of the most lethal drugs now on the street. "Carfentanil is what they're calling the elephant tranquilizer. In humans, we use Fentanil. It's a more potent Opiod," says Dr. Teitelbaum, Director of the Florida Recovery Center.

Oct. 8 – 23rd – The University of Florida Campaign for Charities (UFCC) is the official University annual employee giving campaign. All UF, UF Foundation and UF Athletic Association employees can participate by making charitable donations through payroll deduction, cash, check, credit card, stock contribution of this newly created fundraising…

The Brainstorm is a bimonthly bulletin of the McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida

The Florida Psychiatric Society (FPS) 2016 Fall CME Meeting was held over the weekend at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel. Several members of the University of Florida’s Department of Psychiatry faculty and residents attended the meeting which focused on “Foundations for the Future of Psychiatry”. Mariam Rahmani,…

“This is the civil rights issue of our generation,” said panelist Rajiv Tandon, a psychiatrist and president of NAMI Florida, speaking at a forum Friday hosted by the Sarasota chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.

Greg Valcante, Ph.D., director of UF’s center, wants to get the word out to parents who might be interested in participating in the pilot program.

The University of Florida and 18 partnering institutions today will launch the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States. Researchers are targeting specific elementary schools within specific geographic regions to ensure a nationally representative sample, said Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D., co-principal investigator at the UF Health site with Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H., founding chair of UF’s department of epidemiology.

“The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to join efforts by the College of Medicine and the University of Florida to enhance wellness, increase resilience and strengthen compassion through mindfulness practices. Our College motto is to “Learn, Care and Lead” and mindful relaxation skills strengthen everyone’ s readiness to contribute to…