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Tobias Wasser, MD, associate professor adjunct of psychiatry, and Rocksheng Zhong, MD, MHS, lecturer in psychiatry, have been selected to receive the American Psychiatric Association’s 2025 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award.

Joy Hirsch, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry and professor of comparative medicine and of neuroscience, spoke to NPR about her 2021 study that examined disagreement during face-to-face dialogue.

Charles Dike, MD, MPH, professor of psychiatry of the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Law and Psychiatry Division, has been named the recipient of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and APA Foundation’s 2025 Chester M. Pierce Human Rights Award.

Fabiola Arbelo Cruz, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Oluwole Jegede, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry are co-authors of a paper in Current Psychiatry Reports that synthetizes findings reflecting the increasing racial and ethnic inequities in opioid overdose mortality and emphasizes the necessity for tailored interventions as well as other policy-level and structural strategies to stem this trend.

Anahita Bassir Nia, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been selected as a funding recipient of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) Early-Stage Investigator Assistance Program.

Fabiola Arbelo Cruz, MD; Caroline Dumont, MD, MPH; Emma Lo, MD; Annie Harper, PhD; Billy Bromage, MSW; and Lori Wallace, PhD, MPH advocate in The Hartford Courant for officials to stop displacing the homeless from encampments in Connecticut.

Philip Corlett, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, was a keynote speaker at the Chen Institute and Science magazine conference titled, “Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health.”

A nationwide survey of U.S. psychiatric hospitals shows that fewer than 50% offer buprenorphine, methadone, and/or naltrexone, lifesaving medications that can treat opioid use disorder.

Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry and professor in the Child Study Center and of neuroscience, spoke to The New York Times about consequences of binge watching and other uses of technology that can have negative consequences on mental health.