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Fluctuations in brain activity increase until mid-adolescence. Deviations from this trajectory are linked to worse executive functioning.

When exposed to mild stressors, brain networks associated with past trauma showed reduced connectivity, Yale researchers find.

Elizabeth Goldfarb, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, is senior author of a paper in PNAS that assesses how trauma-related brain networks respond to current acute stress in real time.

Congratulations to Julia and Zihan on starting graduate school! Zihan is off to NYU to work with Sebastian Michelmann and Daryl Fougnie, and Julia is going to UCLA to work with Jesse Rissman. We will miss them!

Cortisol is often blamed for stress-related health issues. Research shows it can also boost memory. Elizabeth Goldfarb, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, explains in an interview with the online news source Being Patient.

We are excited to host Emma Heling, a PhD student with our collaborator Erno Hermans at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen!

Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, MHS; Joao P. De Aquino, MD; Matthew Girgenti, PhD; Elizabeth Goldfarb, PhD; and Rajiv Radhakrishnan, MD, have been elected to Associate Membership of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Yale researchers find people with stronger cravings for food or substances get “stuck” in a particular pattern of brain activity.