Yale Department of Psychiatry faculty Nii Addy, PhD, Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD, and Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, have been appointed to named professorships.
Addy, a neuroscientist whose research focuses on the neurobiology of reinforcement learning and motivational control and how these brain processes are altered in substance use, substance use disorders, depression, and anxiety, was recently appointed the Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry.
Krishnan-Sarin, an internationally renowned authority on youth tobacco use, was recently appointed the Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry. Her research seeks to understand the bio-behavioral underpinnings of tobacco and alcohol behaviors among youth and adults, and use this knowledge to develop optimal interventions and regulations to reduce these behaviors.
Pittenger, who studies a network of brain structures known as the basal ganglia and the consequences of dysfunction of this network in various neuropsychiatric diseases, was recently appointed the Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry.