If you’ve heard us mention the Director’s Club before, here’s an update: we have a new name, one that we think truly captures what this PRI and our community are really about. PRI Partners is our new annual giving society. The rebrand reflects something we wanted to say more clearly: advancing psychiatric care in Arkansas […]
Tips for Spring Wellness from Dr. Kesley Winn (and her dog Marty)
As another spring arrives this year, many may find themselves with a little more spring in their step. The tulips are waking up, the birds are chirping, and the days are getting longer. Despite the bustle of modern life, with long workdays spent indoors for most, it is striking that our rhythms and moods are […]
What Shapes a Developing Brain? PRI Researchers Are Finding Out
Early childhood is a critical period of human brain development. A landmark new study aims to better understand how the brain develops during this period and how it is affected by exposure to substances and other environmental, social, and biological factors during pregnancy and after birth. The HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study is […]
PRI’s Elliott Named UAMS MVP
Naomi Elliott, LCSW, a case manager on PRI’s women’s inpatient unit, was named the UAMS MVP for the month of February. Elliott, who was recognized by UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson on Feb. 11, “always goes above and beyond for patients on the unit and will often be one step ahead in providing follow-up care. Naomi […]
Former Intern Awarded Cambridge Scholarship
A second-year UAMS College of Medicine student and former intern in the UAMS Addiction Research Training Program, which is based at PRI, recently received a Gates Cambridge scholarship to complete the Ph.D. portion of her M.D./Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in England. Nicole Occidental worked in PRI’s Brain Imaging Research Center with Andrew James, […]
Arkansas Suicide Prevention Update
The Arkansas Suicide Prevention Update, hosted by the Psychiatric Research Institute, will feature a number of experts on this sensitive subject as well as a special presentation by Dr. Christine Yu Moutier, M.D., the chief medical officer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The landmark event, scheduled for Thursday, April 10, from 8:30 to […]
A Message From The Director
Dear Friends of the Psychiatric Research Institute, It has been one and a half years since I joined UAMS as PRI’s Director and Chair of the UAMS Department of Psychiatry. It is true that time flies – this time feels like it has flown by as I’ve learned more and more about the state of […]
Brain Imaging System Gives Researchers New Option
The origins of human mental health and illness lie in our early life when the brain is undergoing the programs and patterns of organization in structure and function that underlie these differing developmental outcomes. Magnetic resonance imaging, better known as MRI, has become the dominant brain imaging technology used in exploring the complex relationship between […]
Research Profile
An article written by a Psychiatric Research Institute (PRI) researcher is featured in each edition of “Mind Matters.” This article was written by Mollee Steely Smith, an assistant professor in PRI’s Health and the Legal System (HEALS) Lab. “An integrative literature review of substance use treatment service need and provision to pregnant and postpartum populations […]
Young Patients Explore Life Cycles Of Butterflies
There are roughly 750 species of butterfly in the United States. That fact may come as a surprise to most people, but probably not to the young patients on the Child Diagnostic Unit (CDU) in the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute (PRI). The young children on the inpatient unit spent four weeks in March learning a […]