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Aakash Basu, a PhD student in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, and Alfred Kaye, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are first and senior authors, respectively of a study in Biological Psychiatry that tracked the release of the hormone norepinephrine in response to threat.

Jessica Wolf, PhD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, wrote a paper in the Community Mental Health Journal that explores benefits, accomplishments, and challenges faced by a peer-run organization during its 30-year evolution in offering self-help groups, supported housing, peer support services, peer specialist training, and systems change projects in Los Angeles County, California.

Marina Picciotto, PhD, Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and professor in the Child Study Center, of neuroscience and of pharmacology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Christina Cipriano's comprehensive meta-analysis, The State of Evidence for Social and Emotional Learning: A Contemporary Meta-Analysis of Universal School-Based SEL Interventions, has been recognized as the Top Cited Article in 2022-2023 for Wiley’s Child Development.

Jordan Sloshower, MD, MSc, clinical instructor of psychiatry, and Deepak Cyril D'Souza, MD, Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, are co-authors of a paper in Scientific Reports that tracks results from a recent psilocybin study.

Arielle Rubenstein, PhD, clinical psychologist at Yale School of Music, and Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of psychology, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a review in APA PsycNet that aims to answer the question of whether exposure is necessary to treat posttraumatic stress disorder by integrating clinical and research literature from multiple perspectives.

The power of mentorship is clear when you first meet Sarah Yip, PhD, and Sarah Lichenstein, PhD, and hear how their complementary interests and collaborative work have grown and thrived.

A professorship has been established at Yale to honor and commemorate the contributions of the late Steven M. Southwick, MD, one of the world’s leading experts on psychological trauma and human resilience. The Director of the Women and Addictive Disorders Core within Women’s Health Research at Yale Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, has been named the inaugural Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry.

In November, President Joe Biden launched the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research. This effort is led by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden in close collaboration with the White House Gender Policy Council. It is chaired by Carolyn M. Mazure, PhD, founder and director of Yale School of Medicine’s Women’s Health Research at Yale.