Since the last legislative session in early 2019, the Psychiatric Research Institute has helped lead the development of an exciting new specialty clinic for children and adolescents that has started at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) in conjunction with the UAMS Department of Pediatrics. The clinic is a multi-disciplinary clinic for children and adolescents suffering or […]

Program’s Implementation Largest In PRI History Our Center for Trauma Prevention, Recovery, and Innovation (CTPRI) was successfully launched in November and December 2019 after a year of preparation and training across all outpatient areas of the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute, including our programs for children and adolescents. This launch was the single largest program implementation in […]

Interventional psychiatry is an emerging sub-specialty of psychiatry, with a goal of helping individuals who have not responded to the long established methods of treatment for depression such as medication management and psychotherapy, or talk therapy. For those who have endured endless episodes of emotional turmoil, not to mention the physical constraints associated with poorly […]

Dear Friends of the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute, 2019 was a year of re-establishing many important foundational aspects of the Psychiatric Research Institute. We needed many more faculty, our research needed reinvigorating, and a strong organizational structure for the department and institute needed to be restored. I am happy to report that a strong foundation […]