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Psychiatry addresses the illnesses that affect our most human qualities-disorders of thinking, feeling and behaving. Achievement of fulfillment in life is difficult in patients with psychiatric disorders since these disorders disrupt their inner functioning and interpersonal relationships. Learning how to help patients and their families overcome these illnesses is the task of physicians who are training to become psychiatrists.

Neuroimaging Dr. Kotrla -

Neuroimageing Dr Kotrla The head of the College of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, Kathryn Kotrla, M.D., is pursuing new techniques in neuroimaging--the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines to view what is happening in the brains of people with severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. MRI can now be used to create "movies" of processes within parts of the body, including the brain. Some of the newer applications of magnetic resonance imaging include functional MRI (FMRI)--in which brain activity can be viewed as it happens--and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), which allows researchers to discern the concentrations of various chemicals in the brain.

Neuropsychiatry Research Program -

The Neuropsychiatry Research Program is a collaboration between Scott and White Hospital, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System and TAMUSHSC. The Co-Directors of the Program, Keith A Young, Paul B. Hicks and Ian Steel Russell oversee translational research on psychosis, dementia and mood disorders. The program has core facilities for molecular biology, stereological anatomy, immunohistochemistry, neurochemistry, behavioral pharmacology, human cognition and neuropsychology, clinical psychopharmacology and human genetic studies. Besides ongoing work on the neural basis of schizophrenia, recent investigations have studied new treatments for Alzheimer's, cognitive improvement in schizophrenia, and the neurobiology of major depression and bipolar disorder, with emphasis on the complex relationship of these mood disorders to suicidal behavior.
http://www.texvet.com/mh_bm/research.htm

Mind-Body Health Research Program -

The Mind-Body Health Research Program is dedicated to research in the area of mind-body interactions in healthcare. The clinical component of the research program has an emphasis on hypnosis and pain control, cognitive interventions for smoking cessation and other aspects of mind-body interactions in medical care.
Mind Body Health Research Program