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Yale School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Healthcare System researchers compared social determinants of health in relation to the risk of suicide, a major global public health issue and one of the leading causes of death in the United States.

Peter Na, MD, MPH; Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH; and Joel Gelernter, MD, are co-authors of an editorial in the British Journal of Psychiatry that describes the importance of converging genetics and psychosocial epidemiology research methods to understand the biopsychosocial etiology of psychiatric phenotypes.

Joseph Deak, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been chosen to receive two awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), including a 5-year K01 career development award.

Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and of public health, is senior author of a paper in The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry that found resilience and a strong sense of gratitude were significantly associated with self-reported successful aging among U.S. veterans with depression, anxiety, and/or posttraumatic stress disorder.

Bao-Zhu Yang, PhD, research scientist in psychiatry, has been awarded a grant by the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a study related to drug use and HIV.

Yale scientists, led by first author Priya Gupta, PhD, postdoctoral associate, and senior author Daniel F. Levey, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, investigated the complex underlying genetic architecture of the "big five" personality traits in a cohort of 682,688 people, the largest study of its kind. The results were published in Nature Human Behavior.

Hang Zhou, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and professor of genetics and of neuroscience, are co-authors of a paper in The Journal of Clinical Investigation that reviews progress of human genetic and epigenetic study of alcohol use disorder and summarizes key future directions including applications of whole-genome sequencing, multi-omics and data science approaches.

A new study led by National Center for PTSD and Yale researchers analyzed data from a large, population-based sample of U.S. military veterans to identify factors — both positive and negative — associated with mental, physical, psychosocial, and cognitive functioning.

Peter Jongho Na, MD, MPH, a psychiatrist at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System and assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, has been appointed to a presidential committee in South Korea that aims to address the country’s challenges with mental health and suicide.