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Identification and External Validation of a Problem Cannabis Risk Network
Yale scientists collaborated on a study in Biological Psychiatry that provides insight into neural mechanisms of risk for problem-level cannabis use among adolescents/emerging adults. Sarah Lichenstein, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Sarah Yip, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, are the first and senior authors, respectively.
Source: Biological Psychiatry
6 Feb 2025
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Yip Elected to Board of Directors of APT Foundation
Sarah Yip, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the APT Foundation in New Haven.
9 Oct 2024
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Yale Researchers Awarded $20.6M Grant for Wide-Ranging Study of Mental Illness
Scientists from Yale School of Medicine, Yale School of Public Health, and Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have been awarded a $20.6 million federal grant for a five-year study of people with a wide range of mental illnesses.
29 Aug 2024
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Mentorship and Science
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.
22 Apr 2024
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Teenage Brain Development Study Forecasts Drinking Behavior by Sex
Researchers sorted through a massive MRI dataset of teenage brains to see if they could predict drinking behavior in adolescents by looking at how two systems rewire during development. The study revealed that the way inhibitory and reward pathways develop can help forecast how likely those teens are to drink heavily in the years to come.
18 Sep 2023
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Brain Networks and Adolescent Alcohol Use
Sarah Yip, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, is first author of a paper in JAMA Psychiatry that explores the functional brain connections associated with alcohol use risk in adolescents and whether these connections are different for male and female adolescents.
Source: JAMA Psychiatry
30 Aug 2023
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WHRY’S Undergraduate Fellows Focus on the Future
Each year, Women’s Health Research at Yale mentors undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing a career in medicine and science. Through the WHRY fellowship these interests are infused with an appreciation for the role sex and gender differences have in medicine allowing them to integrate women’s health into their academic pursuits.
15 Dec 2022
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Despite Precautions, COVID-19 Pandemic Disproportionately Impacts People From Minoritized Backgrounds
A new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine has found that people from racial and ethnic minoritized backgrounds have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic despite being more likely to engage in health and safety precautions than their white counterparts.
13 Feb 2022
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It's Time to Take Women's Health Seriously
Although medicine has come a long way from ancient times, misperceptions about the occurrence and cause of symptoms continue, particularly regarding the health of women.
19 Sep 2021
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Opioids, Pain, and the Brain: Mapping Out a Healthier Future for Women
Dr. Sarah Yip and Dr. Sarah Lichenstein are leading one of the first studies to investigate the neurobiology of pain and analgesia at the same time as investigating sex differences.
19 Sep 2021
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WHRY Funds Studies on Heart Disease, Insomnia, and Pain
Women’s Health Research at Yale today announced funding for three new studies investigating a method for improving the diagnosis of heart disease in women, a therapy for clinically significant sleep disruption common in Black women, and the influence of biological sex on the underlying brain patterns that link pain and opioid use.
24 May 2021
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WHRY Funds Study on How CBD Affects the Brain
Women’s Health Research at Yale announced funding to investigate how the presumably non-intoxicating cannabis ingredient cannabidiol (CBD) affects the brain, and if it affects women and men differently. CBD use is growing in popularity exponentially, yet the safety and effectiveness of this non-regulated category of products are unknown.
10 Jan 2021
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YIP, BABL Labs Receive Grant to Assess Postpartum Trajectories of Opioid Use in Women
Two Yale programs have received a five-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to assess postpartum trajectories of opioid use in women.
22 Sep 2020
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Two Yale Psychiatry Affiliates to Speak at International Society for Research on Impulsivity (Virtual) Meeting
Two Yale Department of Psychiatry affiliates will give presentations at the 2020 International Society for Research on Impulsivity (Virtual) Meeting.
28 Apr 2020
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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.
13 Nov 2019
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Yale Imaging and Psychopharmacology Lab Featured in Journal Article
Research by the Yale Imaging and Psychopharmacology Lab was featured in a Nature Outlook article about opioid addiction.
Source: Nature Outlook
16 Sep 2019
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Tackling addiction with treatment and predictive outcomes modeling
From the predictive to the prescriptive, advances in the science of addiction treatment are bringing us closer to delivering on the long-implicit promise that functional recovery from substance use disorders is possible. Mapping neural profiles to identify individuals at risk of addiction to..
24 Apr 2019
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Connectome-based prediction of cocaine abstinence
Sarah Yip, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, is the first author of a paper published in The American Journal of Psychiatry that tracks the results of a study that used connectome-based predictive modeling to identify neural networks predictive of future abstinence from cocaine.
Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry
3 Feb 2019
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Neural Fingerprints ID Those Likely to Abstain from Cocaine
By measuring the strength of connections between different brain networks, Yale researchers successfully predicted who would abstain from cocaine during treatment, they report Jan. 4 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
8 Jan 2019
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Neural fingerprints ID those likely to abstain from cocaine
By measuring the strength of connections between different brain networks, Yale researchers successfully predicted who would abstain from cocaine during treatment, they reported Jan. 4 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
7 Jan 2019