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Does spring always mean relief from seasonal affective disorder? Paul Desan, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Winter Depression Research Clinic at Yale School of Medicine, weighs in during an interview with WTNH-TV.

Will you be at AERA/NCME? Researchers from the Education Collaboratory will be sharing their work at the 2025 American Educational Research Association (AERA) and National Council on Measurement in Education Conference in Denver, Colorado. Here’s a preview of what you can expect:

Elie Abdelnour, MD; Catherine Burke, PsyD; and Adrienne Hicks, MD, PhD, assistant professors of psychiatry, have been invited to participate in the 2025-26 Education Scholar Fellowship at Yale School of Medicine.

Angelina Spicer, a stand-up comic, producer, writer, and self-described “accidental activist,” was honored March 22, 2025 with the Yale Department of Psychiatry Mental Health Advocacy Award.

Fabiola Arbelo Cruz, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been appointed director of the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program’s Social Justice and Health Equity Curriculum.

The Yale Department of Psychiatry on March 21 announced its 2025 Match Class for the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program.

Julio Nunes, MD, a third-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, and Alisson Paredes Naveda, BS, an intern at the Yale Cocaine Research Clinic, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit of the Connecticut Mental Health Center, have been awarded travel scholarships to attend and present their research at the American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry (ASHP) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, Calif, from May 16 to 17, 2025.

Infants can encode specific memories, a new Yale study shows, suggesting “infantile amnesia” might be a memory retrieval problem.

Yale Department of Psychiatry residents Daniel Camacho, MD, PhD (PGY-3); Tia Kozar, MD (PGY-1); and Amy Cheung, MD, PhD, (PGY-2) have been chosen to be members of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Scholars Program.