CMHC News Archive

Could an eye test assess risk of psychosis? A study published in Communications Psychology that links paranoia and teleological thinking to visual perception suggests it might. Santiago Castiello, DPhil, postdoctoral researcher, and Philip Corlett, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, are first and senior authors, respectively.

Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, MHS; Joao P. De Aquino, MD; Matthew Girgenti, PhD; Elizabeth Goldfarb, PhD; and Rajiv Radhakrishnan, MD, have been elected to Associate Membership of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Carlos Grilo, PhD, professor of psychiatry and psychology; Ralitza Gueorguieva, PhD, senior research scientist in biostatistics, and Yale co-authors tested the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy, lisdexamfetamine, and the combination of the two for binge-eating disorder comorbid with obesity. The results were published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Behavioral addictions such as gambling and gaming disorders, compulsive sexual activity, problematic shopping and buying, and problematic use of social media deserve more clinical and public health attention, according to a new review published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry and professor in the Child Study Center and of neuroscience, is senior author.

Gerard Sanacora, MD, PhD, George D. and Esther S. Gross Professor of Psychiatry, spoke to The New York Times about some common questions and misconceptions about antidepressants. Sanacora is director of the Yale Depression Research Program.

Members of Imani Breakthrough Opioid Recovery, a faith-based individual and group wellness intervention taking place in the community within Latinx and Black churches, presented their program at Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds on November 19, 2024.

Frances J. Griffith, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, and Lisa Fucito, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in Nature Digital Medicine that describes a user experience analysis, including natural language processing, from a digital intervention for reducing alcohol risk and improving sleep health in young adults.

Extreme risk protection order laws -- so called "red flag laws" -- in Connecticut, California, Maryland, and Washington are effective suicide prevention tools, according to a study published in Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law and co-authored by Reena Kapoor, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, and Michael Norko, MD, MA, professor of psychiatry, and colleagues.

Jacob Tebes, PhD, professor of psychiatry (psychology), in the Child Study Center and of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences) has received a two-year research grant from the National Institute of Justice to extend the multi-level, mixed methods evaluation of Elm City COMPASS , a community-based initiative to create a system of sustainable supports for people in New Haven who experience a mental health or substance use crisis.