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Leckman Receives Julius Axelrod Mentorship Award
The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology has named James F. Leckman, MD, PhD, as the recipient of its 2019 Julius Axelrod Mentorship Award.
9 Dec 2019
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New CSC Facility Improves Access, Promotes Collaboration, and Provides Welcoming Space for Kids and Families
The Yale Child Study Center’s clinical practice has moved into a striking new facility that brings all of its clinical programs together under one roof, thereby making it easier for families to access services and promoting increased collaboration among clinicians.
9 Dec 2019
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Literacy Grounded in Community Brings Kids and Families Together
About 8 years ago, in Grundy County, Tennessee, the Yale Child Study Center and Scholastic worked with Sewanee: The University of the South, Tracy City Elementary School, and other local partners to create Discover Together, a multi-generational system of programs, including a family co-op and a summer camp that supports families through literacy and storytelling.
5 Dec 2019
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Researchers, Clinicians, Communicators By Day; Town Servants By Night
Three members of the Yale Department of Psychiatry are serving as elected members of volunteer boards in their communities, helping to shape policy while prioritizing and tracking spending on behalf of constituents.
4 Dec 2019
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MD-PhD Candidate Stefano Daniele Is Named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" List for 2020
Stefano Daniele, an MD-PhD candidate at Yale School of Medicine, has been named by Forbes Magazine to its "30 Under 30" list for science.
3 Dec 2019
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Yale Review: How Brain Alterations Contribute to Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors
How brain alterations contribute to suicidal thoughts and behaviors is the subject of a new published review of brain scanning studies by Yale and international researchers. Hilary Blumberg, MD, John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience, and Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at Yale, is the paper's lead and corresponding author.
2 Dec 2019
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Click, Click, Cook: Online Grocery Shopping Leaves ‘Food Deserts’ Behind
A Yale University analysis found that most people in “food deserts” in eight states would increase their access to healthy, nutritious food if they purchase groceries online and had the food delivered as part of the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
2 Dec 2019
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Here's What Happens To Your Body When You Overthink
Rajita Sinha, PhD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience; and Director of the Yale Stress Center, spoke to HuffPost about the consequences of overthinking.
25 Nov 2019
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Dvornek's Machine Learning Approaches Earn Top Prizes at International Conference
Nicha Dvornek, PhD, used multi-task learning to design a novel recurrent neural network-based model that learned to discriminate between data classes.
21 Nov 2019
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“I smile for children everywhere!” Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Yale professor, Rima Salah, PhD, commemorates the 30th Anniversary on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). "Let us unite our strengths and reaffirm our commitment to uphold and fulfill the rights of all children wherever they are."
20 Nov 2019
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Peabody Science Cafe: "A Conversation on Animal Consciousness" on Nov. 19
"A Conversation on Animal Consciousness" will be held at Bar, 254 Crown Street, New Haven, on Tuesday, November 19 at 7 p.m. Admission is free, but you buy the food and drink.
15 Nov 2019
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Yale Imaging and Psychopharmacology Lab Publishes Articles in Molecular Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry CNNI
Yale School of Medicine's Yale Imaging and Psychopharmacology Lab, directed by neuroscientist Sarah Yip, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, has published research articles in Molecular Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
14 Nov 2019
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Editorial: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Use During Pregnancy—Associated With But Not Causative of Autism in Offspring
José M. Flores, MD, PhD, MPH, a fourth-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, is the first author of an editorial published in JAMA Psychiatry that emphasizes that an association found between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and autism is due to confounding by indication, a source of bias.
11 Nov 2019
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Autism discussed at Trumbull event
Faculty from Yale's Autism program spoke at the 42nd Annual Maxwell Bogin MD Lectures in Pediatrics on October 30th. The lectures were sponsored by the Yale New Haven Health system and the Bridgeport Hospital Department of Pediatrics.
31 Oct 2019
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Yale Study: Connecticut Overdose Deaths Have More Than Doubled Since 2012
Greg Rhee, PhD, MSW, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and Robert Rosenheck, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and of Health Policy, are co-authors of a paper published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence that found the rate of drug overdose deaths in Connecticut has more than doubled since 2012.
31 Oct 2019
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Drug overdose deaths in CT doubled in 6 years
Opioid overdose deaths in Connecticut doubled in the past six years, largely driven by use of multiple drugs together, according to a team of researchers from the University of Connecticut and Yale University.
29 Oct 2019
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Study Suggests Role for Targeting Psychological Variables in the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder and Chronic Pain
There is a paucity of evidence-based treatments for co-occurring opioid use disorder and chronic pain. These inter-related chronic medical conditions have been central to the unfolding of the opioid crisis. A new study by researchers at Yale, Johns Hopkins, University of Bridgeport, and Western Connecticut State University published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology suggests that psychological variables are important treatment targets for co-occurring opioid use disorder and chronic pain.
28 Oct 2019
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Is Vaping Safe? Picciotto Speaks to the BBC about E-Cigarette Use
Marina Picciotto, PhD, Charles B.G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center, of Neuroscience and of Pharmacology, spoke to the BBC about nicotine and vaping in a recent report.
24 Oct 2019
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A Structured Approach to Introducing Residents to Group Therapy Leadership
Zachary M. Harvanek, MD, PhD, a second-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, and Hun Millard, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, co-wrote a letter to the editor published in Academic Psychiatry that proposes a structured and easy-to-implement protocol to have residents receive formal instruction and experience in group therapy as part of an inpatient rotation.
23 Oct 2019
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National Academy of Medicine Elects Six Yale Faculty Members
Six Yale School of Medicine faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). The six are among 100 new members elected by the organization to receive the honor, which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service in the fields of health and medicine.
21 Oct 2019