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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.

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

A new study published in World Psychiatry examines the association between neighborhood-level socioeconomic disadvantage and mental health among U.S. veterans. Ian C. Fischer, PhD, left, and Robert H. Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, right, are lead and senior authors, respectively.

The Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcohol (CTNA) at Yale School of Medicine has been awarded a grant by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to continue its research for five more years.

Uri Bright, PhD, left, and Joel Gelernter, MD, right, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in Nature Communications that investigates the genetic architecture of fibromyalgia, a chronic disorder that affects the quality of life of around 3% of the world’s population.

Peter Na, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, is co-author of a paper in JAMA Network Open that examines whether hospital-based assertive case management reduces suicidal thoughts and behaviors in high-risk outpatients with major depressive disorder.

Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, left, and John H. Krystal, MD, right, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry that examines national trends in post-traumatic stress disorder prevalence among U.S. military veterans using data from the most recent National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study cohort.

Peter Jongho Na, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, spoke to The New York Times about depression in young children in South Korea where students are under intense academic pressure.

Among eight things you can do to lower dementia risk is reduce alcohol intake, experts say. "I think people should be aware that even a small amount of alcohol intake may have negative cognitive effects down the line,” said Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and professor of genetics and of neuroscience.