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A new Yale genetics study, published in Nature Mental Health, provides evidence on the relationship between cannabis use, cannabis use disorder, and a range of psychiatric disorders. The authors include first author Marco Galimberti, PhD, left, and senior author Joel Gelernter, MD, right.

A genome-wide analyses in Nature Genetics identified 30 independent loci associated with obsessive–compulsive disorder, highlighting genetic overlap with other psychiatric disorders and implicating putative effector genes and cell types contributing to its etiology. Marco Galimberti, PhD, associate research scientist, is co-first author.

Peter Na, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and of public health, are co-authors of a paper in Translational Psychiatry that reviews literature on the assessment of relevant social factors and pragmatic psychosocial strategies at the individual, family, and community levels to help reduce adverse impact on patients.

Peter Jongho Na, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, spoke to The Guardian about the suicide death of actor Kim Sae-ron in South Korea. Na is on a presidential committee in South Korea that aims to address the country’s challenges with mental health and suicide.

Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers Lu Wang, PhD; Hang Zhou, PhD; and Joel Gelernter, MD, are co-authors of a paper in Biological Psychiatry that extends understanding of the genetic architecture of alcohol use disorder.

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.