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Yale Child Study Center Assistant Professor Emily Olfson is one of four 2024 Young Investigator Award recipients from the Tourette Association of America (TAA). Each awardee will receive $150,000 over two years to support their Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorder research.

Recently released study findings from researchers at the Yale Child Study Center and Yale Department of Psychiatry indicate that rare genetic changes that are spontaneous – and not inherited from parents – may contribute to the underpinnings of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Lyndsey Chong, Elizabeth Edgar, and Max Rolison were selected as recipients of the third annual Yale Child Study Center Trainee Pilot Research Awards. The awards provide research funding for trainees currently enrolled in a YCSC training program for initial pilot research projects relevant to child mental health.

The Yale Child Study Center honored forty trainees in the class of 2024 at an annual departmental commencement event on June 21, 2024. YCSC Professor Michael Bloch delivered a keynote speech, and the event was followed by a reception for graduates and their families.

A new webpage has been launched at the Yale Child Study Center to allow families and referring practitioners – and soon school-based personnel – to view and access more than 30 research participation opportunities at the center.

Twenty five residents graduated from the Yale Department of Psychiatry Residency Program at a ceremony June 20 at the New Haven Lawn Club.

On June 3, 2024, the YCSC welcomed 17 undergraduate students from 11 universities and colleges around the country as participants in the center’s developmental science summer internship program.

Yale Department of Psychiatry residents Robin Bonomi, MD, PhD; Yang Jae Lee, MD; and Sarah Abdallah, MD, have been named the 2024 recipients of the Lustman Award for Psychiatric Research.

The fifth annual early autism conference at Yale took place on Thursday, April 18, 2024, with approximately 100 participants. The event was hosted by the Yale Child Study Center Social and Affective Neuroscience of Autism (SANA) Program, directed by Emily Fraser Beedy Professor Kasia Chawarska.