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Pete Vernig, PhD, MBA, ABPP @drvernig

Psychologist and Healthcare System Executive

Joined February 2013
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Primary Care Can Play Key Role in Suicide Prevention bit.ly/41W0ded

Primary Care Can Play Key Role in Suicide Prevention

Adding suicide care practices to routine adult primary care visits reduced suicide attempts by 25% in the months after the visit.

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Improving Firearm Safety in Pediatric Primary Care bit.ly/3W0vV6d

Improving Firearm Safety in Pediatric Primary Care

An automatic reminder supported by low-burden facilitation increased delivery of a universal secure firearm storage program during pediatric primary care.

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Arizona behavioral clinic owners plead guilty to $3.3M Medicaid fraud bit.ly/3DLOS6j
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Kathryn Altman, Winner of the 2024 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition bit.ly/3ZT3ubB
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Ifeoma Azinge, Winner of the 2024 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition bit.ly/3VUma9O
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The 10 biggest behavioral health stories of 2024 bit.ly/3DwpfXe
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Lilly Kelemen, Winner of the 2024 NIMH Three-Minute Talks Competition bit.ly/4fvquDh
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Researchers Investigate Potential Treatment for Eliminating HIV from the Brain bit.ly/49S0X5V

Researchers Investigate Potential Treatment for Eliminating HIV from the Brain

In a recent NIMH-funded study, researchers explored a potential new way of clearing HIV from the brain by testing a drug that targets a type of immune cell known as macrophages.

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How 3 hospitals are reimagining behavioral crisis care bit.ly/41M4bpD
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Director's Innovation Speaker Series: Youth Suicidal Behaviors: Where Do We Go From Here bit.ly/4iJWlD2
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Facing domestic violence? Know that help is available 24/7. Reach out for support.
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Brain Connectivity Linked With Cognition in People With Early Psychosis bit.ly/3ZXFg1b
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Americans’ Struggle with Mental Health psychologicalscience.org/new…

Americans’ Struggle with Mental Health

It is no mystery why rates of anxiety and depression in the United States climbed in 2020, at the height of the pandemic. But then life began a slow return to normal. Why haven’t rates

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Women who spend time on TikTok feel less satisfied with their bodies nbcnews.com/health/womens-he…
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Simone Biles credits therapy for her success at the Paris Olympics cnbc.com/2024/07/31/simone-b…
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Score for predicting dementia risk also may predict depression cnn.com/2024/07/23/health/br…
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Moving in Childhood Contributes to Depression psychologicalscience.org/new…

Moving in Childhood Contributes to Depression

In recent decades, mental health providers began screening for “adverse childhood experiences” — generally defined as abuse, neglect, violence, family dissolution and poverty — as risk factors for...

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Keynote Address: The i-frame and the s-frame: How Focusing on Individual-level Solutions has Led Behavioral Public Policy Astray psychologicalscience.org/vid…

Keynote Address: The i-frame and the s-frame: How Focusing on Individual-level Solutions has Led...

In his Keynote Address, Loewenstein explores the impact of such i-frame interventions and how they can reduce support for much-needed systemic reforms.

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What ‘Inside Out 2’ Teaches Us About Anxiety psychologicalscience.org/new…

What ‘Inside Out 2’ Teaches Us About Anxiety

At the end of “Inside Out,” the 2015 Pixar movie about the emotional life of a girl named Riley, a new button appears on the console used to control Riley’s mood. ...So he dug into the

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Adolescent Anxiety Is Hard to Treat. New Drug-Free Approaches May Help psychologicalscience.org/new…

Adolescent Anxiety Is Hard to Treat. New Drug-Free Approaches May Help

Adolescence is a remarkable period of development and learning, a time when youths explore and adapt to changes in their social worlds and begin to form a sense of who they are and hope to

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