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Using multiple nicotine products can be associated with higher levels of nicotine dependence among youth and increased mortality in adults, compared with the use of one product alone, according to a recent study in Preventive Medicine. Patricia Simon, PhD, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, is lead author.

The quest for personalized medicine, a medical approach in which practitioners use a patient’s unique genetic profile to tailor individual treatment, has emerged as an important goal in the health care sector. But a new Yale-led study shows that the mathematical models currently available to predict treatments have limited effectiveness.

Yale researchers, led by Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, have published a paper in Addiction Biology that explores whether synaptic density in the brain is altered in cocaine use disorder.

Yale Department of Psychiatry scientists have been awarded a five-year, $8.4 million federal grant to establish a new research center at Yale that will develop treatments to help women with problem drinking.

Laborers and other workers in traditionally blue-collar jobs have a “significantly” higher body mass index after retirement than their peers who worked in management and other executive positions, a study by the Yale School of Public Health has found.

Women who enroll in a federal food–assistance program early in their pregnancies lessen the likelihood of delivering an infant who is small for his or her gestational age (SGA), according to a recent study co–authored by a Yale School of Public Health researcher.