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Samuel Wilkinson, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, and Greg Rhee, PhD, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, have been awarded two grants through the National Institutes of Health Research Project Grants Program.
- July 06, 2023Source: JAMA Psychiatry
Sina Nikayin, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Gerard Sanacora, MD, PhD, George D. and Esther S. Gross Professor of Psychiatry, are co-authors of a viewpoint in JAMA Psychiatry that explores how expectations influence outcomes of psychedelic drug therapy.
- April 10, 2023
Off-label, unsupervised use of ketamine has skyrocketed since regulatory changes were put in place at the height of the COVID pandemic. Yale psychiatrist Gerard Sanacora, a worldleader in ketamine research and clinical use, discusses some of the risks patients may be taking.
- October 20, 2022Source: JAMA Psychiatry
Yale researchers Greg Rhee, PhD; John H. Krystal, MD; Gerard Sanacora, MD, PhD; and Samuel Wilkinson, MD, conducted a meta analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry to determine if ketamine is as effective as electroconvulsive therapy in patients with major depressive episode.
- January 02, 2022Source: Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Sina Nikayin, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Robert Ostroff, MD, co-medical director of the Interventional Psychiatry Service at Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital, are co-authors of a paper in Journal of the Neurological Sciences that describes interventional psychiatry training at Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital.
- March 03, 2021
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit early last year, the interventional psychiatry service at Yale held regular meetings for team members. But once coronavirus-imposed lockdowns began sweeping the nation, the meetings – like many others – were moved to Zoom. Sina Nikayin, MD, a Fourth-Year Resident and the Chief Resident of Interventional Psychiatry, saw an opportunity to help promote educational session on the topic of interventional psychiatry.
- May 21, 2020Source: Yale Medicine
Wherever constant stress lives, so too does its more agitated and debilitating cousin: anxiety. About 31% of Americans will experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. What’s more, anxiety often goes hand-in-hand with depression.