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Yale faculty and students respond to a call for ideas by renowned Italian singer-songwriter Giovanni Caccamo for a global book project on the power of youth to drive positive change.
For over a century, researchers have studied children’s well-being.
Built by scientists, designers, engineers, and therapists, the How We Feel app helps users recognize, understand, and regulate emotions at the touch of a finger.
The Yale Global Mental Health Program’s seminar series has received an award from The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund.
Preliminary data indicate SLEEP-SMART can improve sleep patterns, show associated reductions in symptoms of depression and anxiety, and improve the functioning of brain circuits important in emotional and cognitive health.
Recognizing the urgent need to ensure the health of women in our communities, Women’s Health Research at Yale and Elevate, the university’s health policy lab, are collaborating to deploy interventions grounded in the latest and most reliable research directly to women and families.
Times are especially hard for kids and families around the country right now. Here’s what we can do nationally and in Connecticut to help prevent suicide and self-harm and save lives.
Women’s Health Research at Yale, Elevate, and The Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale, are working to meet the urgent health needs of under-resourced and overburdened pregnant and parenting women, harnessing the science of sex and gender for policy change that can overcome the potentially devastating impact of economic inequality on women’s health.
Watch Women's Health Research at Yale's webinar on how science drives discovery, how studying the biology and social experience of women makes it better, and how better science leads to better lives.
Elevate is working with WHRY to generate the science necessary to break the cycle of poverty through effective mental health interventions for mothers and families.
For 20 years, WHRY has been building a lasting, expanding legacy to make science better so people can live better lives.
A WHRY research project has received new funding to translate the game, called One Night Stan, from a role-playing card game into a videogame intervention prototype designed to empower adolescent black girls to take charge of their health.
The MOMS Partnership® is identified as a "Promising Model" in a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine titled, "Vibrant and Health Kids: Aligning Science, Practice, and Policy to Advance Health Equity."
More than a quarter of children with autism spectrum disorder are also diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorders. For the first time, Yale researchers have identified a possible biological cause: a key mechanism that regulates emotion functions differently in the brains of the children who exhibit disruptive behavior.
Thomas V. Fernandez, MD, Assistant Professor in the Child Study Center and of Psychiatry, has been appointed to serve as a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Behavioral Genetics and Epidemiology Study Section, Center for Scientific Review.
Through the use of remote video technology, three Yale Department of Psychiatry trainees are providing diagnostic care, medication management, and supportive therapy to patients located miles away in Connecticut.
Many people with schizophrenia in Ghana spend their days chained to walls in prayer camps where they are ministered to by spiritual healers and forced to fast and pray. A new study, based on a partnership between researchers at the University of Ghana and Yale University, shows that modern medications can improve symptoms of camp residents.
Seven Yale affiliates have been awarded NARSAD Young Investigator Grants through the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.
Children and teens with severe anxiety need both behavioral therapy and medication for the best chance of improvement, a new Yale-led analysis has found.
A study by Yale Department of Psychiatry and Yale Child Study Center researchers found that adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) derive high friendship quality through their use of social media