The Yale Department of Psychiatry is pleased to announce that Aaron Alexander-Bloch, MD, PhD, is the first place recipient of the 2018 Seymour Lustman Resident Research Award in Psychiatry.
João P. De Aquino, MD; Alfred Kaye, MD, PhD; and Rajiv Radhakrishnan, MD, are the second place recipients of the award.
The awards, established in honor of the late Professor Seymour L. Lustman and made possible by a generous contribution from the Seymour L. Lustman Memorial Fund, are presented annually to outstanding physician-scientists for excellence in research carried out during their training.
The honorees will receive their awards and present their research at the Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds on Friday, May 25 at 10:15 am in the CMHC Auditorium, 34 Park St.
First Place Recipient
Aaron Alexander-Bloch, MD, PhD
"Human Cortical Thickness Organized into Genetically-determined Communities across Spatial Resolutions"
Mentor: David Glahn, PhD
Second Place Co-Recipient
João P. De Aquino, MD
"Highs and Lows of Cannabinoid-Dopamine Interactions: Effects of Genetic and Pharmacological Modulation of Catechol-O-methyltransferase on the Acute Response to Delta-9-tetraydrocannabinol in Humans"
Mentor: Mohini Ranganathan, MBBS
Second Place Co-Recipient
Alfred Kaye, MD, PhD
"Cortical Arousal and Pupillary Fluctuations in a Mouse Model of Acute Stress"
Mentor: Alex Kwan, PhD
Second Place Co-Recipient
Rajiv Radhakrishnan, MD
"PET Measures of Synaptic Density in Schizophrenia"
Mentor: Deepak Cyril D'Souza, MD