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Or Duek, PhD, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, and Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of psychology, are first and senior authors, respectively of a study published in Neuropsychopharmacology that tests the potential of a single infusion of ketamine, followed by brief exposure therapy, to enhance post-retrieval extinction of post-traumatic stress disorder trauma memories.

A group of Yale Psychiatry researchers and clinicians recently traveled to Ukraine to ensure that their colleagues have the tools they need to care for both themselves and their patients in the wake of widespread wartime trauma.

A new Yale study sought to unveil the neural mechanism which may govern deficits in decision making under uncertainty in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Investigators from the Yale PTSD Stress Lab, directed by Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of psychology, and the Yale Decision Neuroscience Lab, directed by Ifat Levy, PhD, associate professor and vice chair of diversity, equity and inclusion in comparative medicine, collaborated on the study, published in Translational Psychiatry.

Five Yale researchers are authors of a study in Journal of Psychiatric Research that examines racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of psychiatric outcomes in a population-based sample of White, Black, and Hispanic military veterans.

Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD, postdoctoral associate, and Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of psychology, are first and senior authors, respectively, of the paper "Evaluating the Evidence for Brain-Based Biotypes of Psychiatric Vulnerability in the Acute Aftermath of Trauma" published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.

Technology shows great promise in helping clinicians link mental health disorders to abnormal brain activity, but work remains for illnesses such as PTSD.

Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD, a postdoctoral associate in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been chosen to receive the 2023 Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program (CDLP) Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA).

Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of psychology, has been chosen to receive the Distinguished Mentorship Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS).

About 20 veterans commit suicide every day. The primary enemy most veterans face after service is not war-related trauma but loneliness, according to a new study by researchers at Yale and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).