Psychiatry Advances
46 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsDiscover innovative research and patient-centered programs at the cutting edge of psychiatry and behavioral health sciences on the “Psychiatry Advances” podcast series. Psychiatric, psychological, nursing, and rehabilitative professionals will enjoy this podcast from UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital of Pittsburgh, a national leader in the innovative treatment of mental health and addictive disorders.
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Severe Anxiety in Older Adults and its Effects on Brain and Body Aging
February 14, 2024 12:00 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBCarmen Andreescu is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. This podcast focusses on severe worry and anxiety in aged persons. Not all worry in aged persons is pathological. Severe worry includes dramatic effects on patient’s psychology, brain, and aging. These are characterized here as well as appropriate intervention/treatment noted. The value of Transcranial Stimulation(TMS) is noted.
Clarifying Subtypes of Depression: From Neural Circuits to Behavior
November 13, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBNeil P. Jones Ph.D. is an expert on the spectrum of Depressions, including their diverse manifestations and impact on cognitive-behavioral processes, for example accompanying rumination, stress-related anxiety, and anhedonia. This podcast focuses on subtypes of depression relating to brain pathways.
Mindfulness, Mood Lability, and The Brain in Youth at Risk: Neural and Behavioral Mechanisms
December 21, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBDr. Danella Hafeman MD, PHD is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Principal Investigator of a NIMH Sponsored Clinical Trial titled “Neurobehavior Targets of Mindfulness in Youth at Risk for Mood-Disorders.” This podcast focuses on research methodology, manifestations, instruction and mindfulness interventions to reduce stress and mood lability among at risk middle school youth, thereby affecting key brain connectivity related to potential Bi-Polar o...
The Importance of Menopause for Womens’ Physical and Mental Health
November 21, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBRebecca Thurston PhD. is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is a National/International authority on Menopause. This Podcast describes her groundbreaking and continuing research (25 years) on Menopause. This episode includes its manifestations, women's experience, and impact on physical and mental health. We also discuss menopause's effects on the mind, heart, and brain, and diverse interventions if clinically indicated.
Psycho-Oncology Center for Counseling and Cancer Support
August 31, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBA cancer diagnosis and treatment can be difficult on both patients and their families emotionally. But support is available for people who need it. In this podcast, Robin Valpey, MD, medical director, Center for Counseling and Support, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, and Elizabeth Hale, MD, clinical assistant professor, Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, discuss the mental health care available for cancer patients and their loved ones from the beginning of treatment onward....
Treating Behavioral Manifestations Of Neurological Illness
July 26, 2022 13:37 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBThis Podcast describes integrated care at UPMC/PITT between the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology. Psychiatric manifestations/treatment of Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Epilepsy, and Migraine are discussed with Morgan Faeder MD, PHD. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Director of Neuropsychiatry and Director of the Consultation- Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship, and Alex Israel MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychiatrist /UPMC Epilepsy and Headache Centers.
The University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry Is Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
May 18, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBThe University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry is involved in efforts to promote and implement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). In this podcast, four faculty members offer brief presentations and discuss the importance of DEI. Guests include Sarah Pederson, PhD; Paul Pikonis, PhD; Piper Carroll, MD; and César Escobar-Viera, MD, PhD. They discuss linking the Department of Psychiatry to the Pittsburgh community; the psychiatry residency training curriculum; departmental surveys...
Enhancing the Diagnosis for ADHD-Hyperactivity-By Mobile Sensing
March 10, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBOliver Lindhiem PHD, Associate Professor/Psychiatry/Pediatrics is an expert in childhood diagnosis of behavioral disorders. This Podcast focuses on ADHD-Hyperactive Presentation. This diagnosis, its usual treatment (medication), has for many years been controversial. Thereby highly precise measurement is much needed here. This requires research to prove the value of mobile sensing using a wristband aid. This Podcast also discusses business development of this needed device for potential wide...
Circadian Rhythms, What are They? How Do These Affect Psychiatric and Other Diseases (Disorders)
March 02, 2022 10:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBColeen McClung PHD is a nationally known researcher of Circadian Rhythms. She is funded by the NIMIH/NIDA/prominent Research Foundations. This Podcast focuses on these rhythms, present in all body/animal cells including humans. They are essential for life. Such rhythms may be altered in psychiatric disorders, e.g. Bi-Polar disorder, or other serious bodily diseases such as Cancer. These rhythms, natural and disordered, offer new approaches for effective treatment. Each of these issues is di...
Adolescent Brain Development and Establishing Adult Trajectories
December 27, 2021 20:31 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBProfessor Bea Luna PHD is a nationally highly acclaimed NIMH- Funded psychologist, neuroscientist, teacher/mentor. Using multimodal brain imaging/learning methods she has pioneered in studying normal and atypical adolescent brain development from initiation to the onset of adulthood. These fascinating brain developments affected by adolescent experiences further prepare the brain for adult functioning. Adolescent risk-taking and other affects/brain development are explored in this Podcast.
Substance Abuse (Marijuana) and Reproductive Health of Mothers and Their Children
November 30, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBDr. Natacha De Genna PHD is an Assistant Professor with longstanding acclaimed work relating to marijuana and nicotine use by pregnant mothers, how young age and mental health and discrimination may affect both mothers and their children post pregnancy. Her video “Mothers and Marijuana” is featured on the NIH Web Site. Like alcohol, paired maternal use of both nicotine and marijuana can be especially toxic. Her work on both large and smaller data sets has clinical implications.
Neuromodulation With Deep Brain Stimulation(DBS) for Alcohol Use Disorder
November 17, 2021 10:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBKhaled Moussawi MD, PHD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, is an experienced clinical neurologist and neuroscientist. This Podcast summarizes his research team’s efforts to identify and translate pre-clinical neurobiological findings into actionable clinical treatment protocols for alcohol and potentially other addictions. Deep Brain Stimulation, DBS, now approved treatment of Parkinson’s disease, holds such promise for patients with chronic severe alcohol use disorders.
Mother-Child Brain Synchrony - The Intergenerational Transmission of Depression
October 04, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBJudith Morgan PhD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry. She observes mother-young child social interactions at play while simultaneously recording the brain cortical rhythms of each. Behaviors and neural responses of children at high risk for depression (their mothers are depressed) are compared with those of non-depressed mothers. This research gives rich information/prediction about behaviors, early child brain development-later emotional states, how maternal depression may impact upon the...
Neurofeedback for Depression - Amygdala Studies
August 11, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBKymberly Young PhD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is an expert in brain science. Her 2017 article in the AJP, “Randomized Clinical Trial of Real-Time fMRI Amygdala Neurofeedback for Major Depressive Disorder: Effects on Symptoms and Autobiographical Memory Recall” is gaining attention. This Podcast focuses on the amygdala, how therapeutically it can be brought “online” in the brain through calibrated patient self-efforts related to thei...
Sleep Disturbances in Schizophrenia and Psychosis
July 21, 2021 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBFabio Ferrarelli MD PHD, Director of the Sleep and Schizophrenia Program is Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focusses on how sleep spindles and slow waves differ among patients with chronic schizophrenia and/or acute psychosis relative to healthy individuals. These sleep-specific oscillatory activities may represent potential biomarkers and/or endophenotypes for schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.
Bio-Behavioral Treatments for Depression and Anxiety: Leveraging Neuroplasticity
June 30, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBRebecca Price PhD is Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her innovative integrated research on brain plasticity coupled with computer based cognitive therapy has gained much visibility in the psychiatric literature and at Pitt where she has recently received the Chancellors Distinguished Research Award. This Podcast discusses her research work and methodology as this relates to Ketamine infusion for refractory depression and TB...
Role of Motivational Interviewing in Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
May 12, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBAntoine Douaihy M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine. He is a recognized expert in motivational interviewing. Joining him is his intern in clinical Psychology, Cassie Boness MS. Vaccine hesitancy threatens nationally needed Covid herd immunity. Motivational interviewing is a very useful approach for enlisting reluctant persons in self-change. Discussed here are the parameters and techniques of motivational interviewing as this applies to Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy.
Social Determinants of Racial Disparities in Alcohol problems prior to and during Covid 19
April 14, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBSarah L. Pederson PhD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry. She is a national authority on alcohol use and its more serious social/psychological problems. Her research work is remarkable for its multi-causal personal assessments, racial and otherwise, e.g. measurements of impulsivity and other personal characteristics associated with drinking both in the laboratory and in vivo in the community. This Podcast also considers the effects of Covid-19, pre and now, upon drinking.
The Placebo Effect
March 10, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBMarta Pecina MD PhD. is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Translational Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Lab of the Department of Psychiatry and the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. This Podcast focuses on the Neurobiological basis of placebo effects. Placebos have great power. We explain how both expectation and conditioning generate strong placebo effects relevant to research and their therapeutic use. Ethical issues about placebo use are furthermore addressed.
Brain Science, Clozapine and Early Intervention in Psychosis
February 10, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBDr. Deepak Sarpal is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry/Medical Director of Services for Treatment of Early Psychosis at WPH. This Podcast focuses upon Clozapine, a very valuable but underused treatment for refractory schizophrenia, also brain science involving functional imaging associated with patient improvement on anti-psychotic drugs. Findings include brain pre-frontal cortex connectivity and synchronization of function with brain striatum, limbic system structures, Globus Pallidus.
Center for Interventional Psychiatry
December 09, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBDr. Lalith Kumar K. Solai is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Pitt. He is the Architect/Director of the WPH Center for Interventional Psychiatry. It provides newer treatment modalities in psychiatry, especially for depressed patients refractory to conventional treatments, thus advancing new knowledge about these interventional treatments. This Podcast discusses newer developments in ECT, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) , Ketamine and Ketamine Infusion, Direct Brain Stimulation (D...
Sleep and Cognition in Older Adults
November 14, 2020 20:12 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBDr. Kristine Wilckens PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and sleep researcher. She has a K01 Career Development Award from the NIH. It concerns Slow Wave Sleep and Executive Network Function in older adults. This Podcast reviews the stages of sleep focusing upon slow wave sleep, the deepest most restorative sleep pattern and its effect upon cognition, in essence brain health. Sleep moderates the relationship between amyloid beta and memory recall.
Physician Well-being: Prior to and During Covid-19
October 14, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBSansea Jacobson, MD, is an associate psychiatry professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and director, UPMC Graduate Medical Education WELL Committee. More than 1,700 residents and fellows are in training at UPMC. This podcast discusses physician wellbeing both prior to and during COVID-19, including support systems and individual challenges. Despite the difficulties, COVID-19 empowers doctors to do what they have been trained to do, thereby reinforcing positive identities.
Blended Collaborative Care for Treating Heart Failure and Co-Morbid Depression: Primary Findings from the Hopeful Heart Trial
September 09, 2020 12:56 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBDr. Bruce Rollman is the UPMC Endowed Chair in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. This Podcast describes his highly influential two decades of research in depression and cardiovascular care, including the “Hopeful Heart Trial”, his most recent NIH-funded study that examined the impact of a “blended” collaborative care strategy for treating both heart failure and co-morbid depression.
The Pandemic Continues: Treating the Seriously Mentally Ill
August 27, 2020 15:03 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBRoy Chengappa, MD, is professor of psychiatry and medical director/chief of Comprehensive Recovery Services at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. This service includes care for 5,000 to 10,000 serious, chronically mentally ill patients. Kimberly Clinebell, MD, is major clinician at the Pathways, a long-term structural residence and locked community setting. This podcast describes continuing treatment of these patients given the necessity of social distancing and isolation. This includes cont...
The Pandemic Continues: Non-Psychiatric/Psychiatric Crisis Services (resolve Crisis Services)
August 21, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBJack Rozel, MD, is associate professor of psychiatry and medical director at resolve Crisis Services. He is president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry. This podcast addresses the pandemic functioning of an established, multi-purpose, and community-based crisis center. Crises are not defined by the patient or family having a psychiatric disorder. The center has dealt with challenges associated with the pandemic. This podcast also addresses the role of national helplines du...
The Pandemic Continues: Addiction Services
August 14, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBDr. Jody Glance is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry/Medical Director of Addiction Services/ in-hospital and community. Providing a range of services for patients with addiction to substances has never been easy. This Podcast summarizes how, under Dr. Glance’ s leadership, treatment for patients continues despite difficulties. Changes in regulations, “new staff learning” has permitted “detox at a distance”, protecting patients from COVID risk, modifications of med. Rx, changed group treatm...
INFANT PSYCHIATRY/MENTAL HEALTH - THE MATILDA THEISS CENTER
August 12, 2020 09:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBDr. Paula Marie Powe is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry/Medical Director of Theiss Early Childhood and School-Based Behavioral Center. Her work involves analysis and intervention in infants 0-3 years old exposed to stress. potentially toxic stress. This type stress impacts later mental and physical health. Poor outcomes are not inevitable. Adaptive support enhances infant and child resilience. Programmatic interventions e.g. “parent-child interaction therapy” are reviewed and highlighted.
The Pandemic Continues: Telepsychiatry
August 07, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBGina Perez is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. She is Associate Chief /Behavioral Health Network and Telepsychiatry for UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. This Podcast, 2nd in this Pandemic Series, describes the considerable expansion and implications for the future of telepsychiatry in treating psychiatric patients. Not only in out-patient settings but widely so. Post pandemic it is very likely that most of these changes will persist, thereby altering psychiatric medical care broadly.
The Pandemic: Leadership: Visibility and Communication Work
July 31, 2020 08:00 - 29 minutes - 82.6 MB VideoKen Nash MD is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. He is Chief Clinical Services at Western Psychiatry Hospital. This initial Podcast is the first of Five Podcasts relating to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic. It concerns Leadership for Change during the Pandemic to assure continuing treatment access for the Hospital’s in- patients/ambulatory settings. Similar in purpose, four other Pandemic relevant podcasts will follow/weekly on Fridays. For example, next Friday we pre...
Healthcare System Wide Consultation-Liaison Services.
July 08, 2020 09:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBDr. Priya Gopalan is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh/UPMC. She directs system-wide consultations-liaison services. These provide in-person and telemedicine consultations for in-patients. This Podcast describes building such services that are inter-professional, involve teaching a large number of faculty, residents/fellows/medical students. Key problems addressed include prevention/delirium/multi-causal catatonia/ perinatal problems e.g. depression and substan...
BIPOLAR SPECTRUM DISORDER IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
June 11, 2020 14:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBBoris Birmaher MD. is Endowed Chair- Early Onset Bipolar Disease/Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. This Podcast addresses two research questions: 1) Who among Children and Adolescents are at Risk to develop Bipolar Spectrum Disorder: 2) among patients who develop this disorder who is at risk for recurrence? This is a controlled prospective twenty year duration research study of children at higher risk because at least one of their parents has this d...
EVIDENCED BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS IN COMMUNITIES
May 13, 2020 09:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBShaun Eack PhD is the James and Noel Browne Endowed Chair and Professor in Social Work and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. This Podcast describes his work on Cognitive Enhancement Therapy for persons with Schizophrenia and Autism. This work is a neurocognitive and social-cognitive rehabilitation program. Dr. Eack is presently preparing his positive research findings for application in community settings.
Early Life Experiences Shape Brain Development-Translational Sciences Implications
April 08, 2020 09:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBJudy Cameron PhD is a Professor of Psychiatry. This podcast describes ongoing leading public education, intervention and training programs derived from her previous extensive experimental neuroscience research in primate brain development.
Affect Among Teenagers - The Role of Sleep
March 11, 2020 09:00 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBPeter Franzen PhD. Is Associate Director for Education of the University of Pittsburgh Sleep and Chronobiology Center. This Podcast discusses teenagers shortened sleep during critical high school years, when teenagers must attend school at early times. These sleep changes affect teenager reactivity, emotion, stress, pleasure( anhedonia) cognition and substance use. Consequent to sleep research findings this Podcast also discusses controversial school based interventions to prevent negative o...
Leadership Development for Academic Clinical/Educational Faculty Careers
February 12, 2020 10:00 - 28 minutes - 64.2 MBDr. Jamie Tew is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. This Podcast describes his personal evolution from being a full-time clinical educator into his becoming a lead clinician administer at the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Presently he is Associate Chief of Clinical Services for Inpatient care, Quality, and Director of WPH’s Clinician Educator Faculty Development Program. This Podcast is especially pertinent for early Academic clinical faculty during subsequent periods of their gro...
Sleep, Circadian Rhythms and Risk For Adolescent Substance Abuse
January 08, 2020 11:00 - 26 minutes - 60 MBBrant P. Hasler, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology. He is the PI of multiple NH research grants. These investigate changing adolescent sleep patterns, late bedtimes, early arising and consequent increased risk for substance abuse. Dr. Hasler is both a researcher and a clinician/mentor. Dr. Hasler’s “three-phase” research investigations involve home/school physiological monitoring, sleep studies as well as clinical interventions to change these patterns.
Strategies to Help Families and Children Harmed by a Loved One's Drug Addiction
December 11, 2019 12:00 - 22 minutes - 52.2 MBDennis Daley PhD is Professor of Psychiatry and former Chief Addiction Medicine Services at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. For more than 30 years Dr. Daley provided clinical services to persons with SUDs. His teaching and recovery materials are used throughout the US. This Podcast emphasizes that families of persons with SUDs are harmed and in need of psychological assistance because of their loved one’s serious problems. Family assistance strongly promotes and retains SUD patients in t...
Integrated Physical and Psychiatric/Behavioral Care in Pediatric Settings
November 13, 2019 13:00 - 23 minutes - 53.1 MBOur Guest , Abigail Schlesinger MD. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. She is the Chief , Behavioral Science Division. UPMC Children’s Hospital, also the Medical Director of TiPS (Telephonic Psychiatric Services). These expanding ambulatory integrated services are proximately provided within multi-group Pediatrician’s offices, presently, with TiPS, including 27 Pa. counties. Dr Schlesinger has devoted her career to improving how we talk to patients, assist other physicians and pati...
“Resolve” - A Unique Pittsburgh Crisis Center
October 09, 2019 11:00 - 22 minutes - 52.6 MB“Resolve” is a governmentally funded free-standing, multi-purpose Crisis Center serving all persons in Allegheny County – The Center clients include the mentally ill and any persons/families under great stress - whatever their pressing concerns. My guest is Associate Professor of Psychiatry Jack Rozel MD, President, American Association for Emergency Psychiatry. Dr. Rozel is an expert on gun violence and the Medical Director for “Resolve”.
Intensive Mental Health Outpatient Treatment in Perinatal Women.
September 11, 2019 10:00 - 22 minutes - 50.9 MBMaintaining the mental health of perinatal women is of great importance personally and for all of use. In this episode, we speak with Eydie Moses-Kolko, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and expert in women’s health and perinatal psychiatry. The rationale and approach of partial outpatient intensive treatment for such women is reviewed along with other integrated treatment approaches. Also discussed are core principles of collaboration in program planning.
Telepsychiatry - Growing and Useful
August 14, 2019 10:00 - 24 minutes - 56.8 MBGina Perez, MD, is the Associate Chief of the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Behavioral Network. This includes Telepsychiatry not only for UPMC sites, but also for mental and behavioral health centers throughout Western PA including especially rural areas (16 locations/11 counties). This podcast episode focuses on this rapidly growing treatment modality, not only for individual treatment and evaluation, but also for psychiatric in-patient units and over time emergency rooms. Care standa...
Integrated Care: The IBD Specialty Medical Home
July 10, 2019 10:00 - 28 minutes - 64.2 MBEva Szigethy, MD/PHD is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Director of Behavioral Health within the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Medical Home. Dr. Szigethy focuses her clinical and research interests on integrated medical-psychiatric care models for patients with chronic disease including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). She is the PI of a PCORI grant on the specialty medical home, a likely future model of patient care.
Medical Marijuana
May 23, 2019 19:06 - 28 minutes - 64.3 MBAntoine Douaihy, MD, is professor of Psychiatry and Medicine and senior academic director of Addiction Medical Services at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Medical marijuana is now approved for distribution in Pennsylvania, but it’s absent of controlled clinical trials. Marijuana use requires careful monitoring, including marijuana growing, physician recommendations, and distribution. This episode explores controversies about today’s prescription of medical...
Depression in Late Life/Risk for Dementia
May 23, 2019 19:03 - 21 minutes - 50 MBJordan Karp, MD, is professor of Psychiatry, Anesthesiology, and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. Late-life depression may be brain “toxic.” This episode discusses geriatric depression and ongoing multi-site PCORI/NIH geriatric research about a treatment-resistant depression (OPTIMUM/OPTIMUM-Neuro) trial. This comparative effectiveness research includes patients’ cognition and brain imaging.
ADHD: Diagnosis/Treatment Course/Adult Presentations
May 23, 2019 18:57 - 21 minutes - 48.5 MBBrooke S. G. Molina, PhD, is a professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Pediatrics at University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. She directs clinical research at the ADHD Across the Lifespan Program. This long-time longitudinal clinical research involves youth/adolescents and adult patients. This episode presents information on lifetime course prediction, drug misuse, and primary care-based strategies for the management of ADHD.