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This week at Yale School of Medicine (YSM): Researchers test tools to help identify inaccurate antibiotic allergies; study uncovers genetic differences associated with painful endometriosis; ambient AI scribes don't impair medical students' clinical note writing.

In misophonia, everyday sounds trigger distress, anger, or panic. Yale Child Study Center’s Thomas Fernandez, MD, studies the underlying biology to inform treatment.

Yale researchers are improving the treatment of childhood anxiety by investigating all aspects of the disorder, down to the molecular level.

This week at Yale School of Medicine (YSM): Researchers aim toward treatments for Parkinson's disease, evaluate wearable sensors for assessing knee osteoarthritis, and develop recommendations for when to evaluate patients for axial spondyloarthritis.

Yale Child Study Center is launching a two-year initiative funded by Bukhman Philanthropies to bring modern AI and machine learning tools to child and adolescent mental health research.

Many parents seek help when their child shows changes like anxiety or sleep trouble. Yale Child Study Center explains what families can expect when they do.

A Yale Child Study Center trio-genomics study links hair-pulling and skin-picking to inherited OCD risk scores and rare DNA variants, hinting at shared brain pathways.

Yale Child Study Center researchers emphasize that trichotillomania (repeated hair-pulling) and excoriation disorder (repeated skin-picking) are real, impairing health conditions. The two disorders are part of a group called body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs), and a recent study looked at what kinds of genetic factors might contribute to BFRBs.

Trichotillomania (repeated hair-pulling) and excoriation disorder (repeated skin-picking) were the focus of a recent study at Yale Child Study Center. The two disorders are part of a group called body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs), and the study was designed to clarify what kinds of genetic factors might contribute to BFRBs. It also looked at whether BFRBs share genetic risk with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).