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Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD, adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry, has been awarded the 2026 Bela and Chaim Danieli Early Career Professional Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Several faculty in the Yale Department of Psychiatry participated in the annual Closer to Free cycling event on September 19 to raise money for research and patient care at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center. Five faculty rode with the Philly Pretzel Parade team in honor of the late Dr. Michael Sernyak.

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.

Both fear and emotional pain present unique symptom profiles in individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder, potentially informing new treatment approaches, according to a new Yale study in Biological Psychiatry.

A new Yale-led study found that more than one-third of Israeli adults surveyed during the third month of the Israel-Hamas war suffered from probable post-traumatic stress disorder, revealing widespread psychological distress among people in Israel.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine has launched a pioneering study aimed at uncovering the neural and genomic mechanisms that drive anxiety.

A new study in NPJ Digital Medicine found OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT shows signs of anxiety when its users share “traumatic narratives” about crime, war, or car accidents. And when chatbots get stressed out, they are less likely to be useful in therapeutic settings with people. Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, is the study's first author.

Using functional brain imaging and machine learning, Yale researchers were able to predict PTSD symptoms 14 months after the initial traumatic event.

Arielle Rubenstein, PhD, clinical psychologist at Yale School of Music, and Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of psychology, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a review in APA PsycNet that aims to answer the question of whether exposure is necessary to treat posttraumatic stress disorder by integrating clinical and research literature from multiple perspectives.