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Bridgeport Hospital’s REACH IOP program was honored as one of two finalists for the Association of Ambulatory Behavioral Health's (AABH) 2026 Program of the Year at the AABH annual conference in Las Vegas in May 2026.

“This expanded integration of information across regions of the brain may be how (psychedelic therapy) can break down rigid cognitive patterns and increase flexibility of thought ...” Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry told National Geographic in a recent interview about psychedelics.

At Yale School of Medicine, Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, and colleagues documented sharp symptom reductions within 48 hours among those given psilocybin, while scores in the comparison group remained largely unchanged.

A working group led by faculty from the Yale Department of Psychiatry and Yale Divinity School has convened an ongoing series of conversations exploring connections between religious practice and mental health care. The leaders from psychiatry include Anna Yusim, MD, and Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD.

The Colton Center for Autoimmunity at Yale University announces the recipients of its 2025 awards, recognizing outstanding, translationally focused research projects that aim to accelerate novel diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccines and technological innovations in autoimmunity.

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.

Angelina Spicer, a stand-up comic, producer, writer, and self-described “accidental activist,” was honored March 22, 2025 with the Yale Department of Psychiatry Mental Health Advocacy Award.

Christopher J. Pittenger, MD, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry, has been awarded a Distinguished Investigator Grant by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF).

Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry, and Anna Yusim, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, spoke to WTNH-TV News 8 about why December is a difficult time for some people with mental health struggles.