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Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza, MD, PhD, postdoctoral associate in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been awarded a grant from MQ Mental Health Research for the study, “Stratification of Suicide Risk Through the Integration of Genetic and Clinical Factors.”

Yale Department of Psychiatry residents Eleni Friligkou, MD, MSc, and Joseph Luchsinger, MD, PhD, have been named co-first place recipients of the 2025 Lustman Award for Psychiatric Research.

Yale investigators, in collaboration with other institutions, conducted a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry to investigate how traumatic experiences and adverse events are differentially associated with endometriosis.

The Yale Center for the Science of Cannabis and Cannabinoids (YC-SCAN²) has announced grants over $600,000 to 14 Yale School of Medicine researchers for innovative projects to understand the impact of cannabis and cannabinoids on neurodevelopment and mental health.

Investigators in the Yale Department of Psychiatry investigated the genetic profiles of more than 1 million participants enrolled in multiple cohorts around the world. Leveraging this large dataset, they uncovered more than 100 genes associated with anxiety. Eleni Friligkou, MD, MSc, and Renato Polimanti, PhD, MSc, are first and senior authors, respectively.

Joseph Deak, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been chosen to receive two awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), including a 5-year K01 career development award.

A new study led by Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers and published in JAMA Psychiatry has identified numerous physical health conditions, particularly diseases of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, that have genetic links to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Gita Pathak, PhD, and Renato Polimanti, PhD, are first and senior authors, respectively.

Peter Na, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and of public health, led a research team that examined the psychosocial moderators of high alcohol consumption determined by polygenic risk in military veterans.

The largest epidemiological study to date on the psychiatric factors that can accompany endometriosis has demonstrated that depression, anxiety, and eating disorders are not only a result of the chronic pain endometriosis generates, but also have their own underlying genetic mechanisms.