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Sophie Holmes, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, and Irina Esterlis, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, are the first and senior authors, respectively, of a study published in Nature Communications that examined synaptic density in 26 patients with major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. The research revealed evidence linking lower synaptic density to network alterations and symptoms of depression.

Sarah Yip, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, is the first author of a paper published in The American Journal of Psychiatry that tracks the results of a study that used connectome-based predictive modeling to identify neural networks predictive of future abstinence from cocaine.

A Yale Department of Psychiatry and Yale School of Medicine paper published in Chronic Stress shows converging structural and functional evidence for cerebellum abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder. Sophie Holmes, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, is the first author.

Stephanie Noble, a fourth year INP PhD student in the lab of Todd Constable, has been selected for the prestigious NIH DSPAN F99/K00 Award. Stephanie’s research focuses on investigating the reliability and validity of fMRI statistical methods used for understanding the brain.

On April 12th, the Toddler Developmental Disabilities Clinic at the Yale Child Study Center presented the annual Early Autism: Advances in Research and Clinical Practice Conference.

Even before they are born, premature babies may display alterations in the circuitry of their developing brains, according to a first-of-its kind research study by Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Wayne State University.