Amir Valizadeh, MD, associate research scientist, is first author of a paper in iScience that used blood DNA methylation profiles and clinical measures from a trial to predict ketamine treatment response for PTSD.
- May 20, 2024Source: Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Zachary Harvanek, MD, PhD, instructor of psychiatry; Ke Xu, MD, professor of psychiatry; and Rajita Sinha, PhD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience, are co-authors of a paper in Journal of Behavioral Medicine that analyzes the effects of childhood adversity on obesity, insulin resistance, and epigenetic aging.
- December 07, 2023
A study led by VA Connecticut Healthcare Center/Yale researchers reveals ancestries around the world possess a shared genetic architecture for problematic alcohol use – habitual heavy drinking, accompanied by harmful consequences. Hang Zhou, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and of biomedical informatics & data science at Yale School of Medicine and VA Connecticut, and Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry, and professor of genetics and of neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine and VA Connecticut, were first and senior authors, respectively.
- July 24, 2023Source: Neurobiology of Stress
A new Yale study published in Neurobiology of Stress shows more trauma and assaults on young Black compared to white Americans is linked to faster cellular aging. Study authors are Terrell Holloway, MD; Zachary Harvanek, MD, PhD; Ke Xu, MD; Derrick Gordon, PhD; and Rajita Sinha, PhD.
- March 15, 2022
Does alcohol drinking make you age faster? The answer is not so straightforward, based on a recently published study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine.