Trainee Highlights
Dr. Paola Giusti-Rodriguez had an undergraduate student in her lab (Alex Zhong) selected as a UF AI Scholar (part of the University Scholars Program)
Drs. Takahiro Soda and Barry Setlow had undergraduate students in their labs selected for the UF University Scholars Program.
Faculty Awards and Professional Accomplishments
Dr. Lisa Merlo Greene developed a course that was released as a “featured course” for the new Quality & Patient Safety Initiative (QPSi), called “Clinician Well-Being: Promoting Fulfillment in the Healthcare Setting”. The course is available free to anyone and could be beneficial to non-clinicians as well.
Here is a direct link to the course: Clinician Well-Being: Promoting Professional Fulfillment in the Healthcare Setting – UF CME – Continuing Education (CE) – CLINICIAN WELL-BEING: PROMOTING PROFESSIONAL FULFILLMENT IN THE HEALTHCARE SETTING
And here is a video describing the course: https://youtu.be/TrFqaj8N86k?si=Zm_-dgcfR-vw0eLE
New Grant Awards
Dr. John Williamson is a co-I on a new grant with Dr. Tracy Centanni (UF Dept. of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences) from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program entitled “Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation for improved speech in noise perception in veterans with TBI.”
Publications
Psychiatric Genetics in Clinical Practice: Essential Knowledge for Mental Health Professionals. Besterman AD, Alnor MA, Castaño M, DeLisi LE, Grice DE, Lohoff FW, Middeldorp CM, Müller DJ, Quattrone D, Nurnberger J Jr, Nurmi EL, Ross DA, Soda T, Schulze TG, Trost B, Vilella E, Yap CX, Zai G, Moreno-De-Luca D. Am J Psychiatry. 2025 Mar 26:appiajp20240295.
The Fallout of the COVID-19 Pandemic on College Students. Kring B, de Faria L, Ackerman A, Menon M, Peluso F; with the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, College Student Committee. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2025 Apr;27(4):155-160.
Transcallosal white matter and cortical gray matter variations in autistic adults aged 30-73 years. Shin YS, Christensen D, Wang J, Shirley DJ, Orlando AM, Romero RA, Vaillancourt DE, Wilkes BJ, Coombes SA, Wang Z. Mol Autism. 2025 Mar 6;16(1):16. doi: 10.1186/s13229-025-00652-6.
Atypical Postural Control Variability and Coordination Persist Into Middle and Older Adulthood in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Qu H, Wang J, Shirley DJ, Gemmell HM, Christensen D, Orlando AM, Romero RA, Zielinski BA, Wang Z. Autism Res. 2025 Mar 18. doi: 10.1002/aur.70024.
Early Diagnosis and Intervention is Critical, so What’s Taking so Long? Kovic Y, Dallas GD, Andrade JL, Lloveras LA, Peters KP, Soda T. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2025 Mar 6:S0890-8567(25)00124-8.
McKeown, C., Walker, S. F., & Peters, K. P. (2025). Comparison of Blocked Versus Mixed Trialing When Teaching Foundational Skills to Early Learners. Behavioral Interventions. (40) 1. Online https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.2071
Active Cryptococcus neoformans glucuronoxylomannan production prevents elimination of cryptococcal CNS infection in vivo. Enriquez V, Munzen ME, Porras LM, Charles-Niño CL, Yu F, Alviña K, Ramos RL, Dores MR, Giusti-Rodriguez P, Martinez LR. J Neuroinflammation. 2025 Mar 4;22(1):61.
Mental rotational skills from pre to mid-adolescence: What a novel test tells us about skill development. Moore A, Lewis B, Nixon SJ. Neuropsychology. 2025 Feb 27.
Pharmacogenetics of obsessive-compulsive disorder: Investigations of intragenic and regulatory region genetic variations. Zai G, Zai CC, Gonçalves VF, Wigg K, Lochner C, Stein DJ, Mathews CA, Kennedy JL, Richter MA. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2025 Mar 5;138:111315.
Relationships between the menstrual cycle and neuropsychiatric and physical symptoms in females with Tourette syndrome. Noriega-Makarskyy DT, Realbuto E, Kaylor A, Osiecki L, Essa A, Yu D, Illmann C, Mathews CA, Scharf JM. Front Neurol. 2025 Feb 11;16:1500766.
Drug use among individuals injured in non-fatal motor vehicle crashes and related policies in 2023. Won NY, Gurka KK, Striley CW, Nixon SJ, Cottler LB. Traffic Inj Prev. 2025 Feb 25:1-9.