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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a variant of the anesthetic and party drug ketamine for suicidal patients with major depression.

Amber Childs, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and Luming Li, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry are the first and senior authors, respectively, of an article published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association that describes the processes and workflows for service delivery and early results of telehealth for intensive outpatient psychiatric services in two adolescent treatment programs.

Sofia Noori, MD, MPH, a fourth-year resident in the Department of Psychiatry, has been named the program’s first Chief Resident of Digital Psychiatry.

Godfrey Pearlson, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience, is the author of the new book “Weed Science,” a comprehensive book about cannabis.

The role of milieu therapy on inpatient treatment has become more prominent due to the changing landscape of hospital care, with shorter length of stay, higher patient acuity, and rapid turnover, writes Yale Psychiatry researchers.

Matthew Goldenberg, MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director in the Biopsychosocial Approach to Health-Psychiatry Clerkship, recently first-authored a paper in Academic Psychiatry titled, "Being Reactive: Assessing Affect in the COVID-19 Era."

Cindy A. Crusto, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, has been named Deputy Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Yale Department of Psychiatry.

Strong emotions during the pandemic are normal, but some may find that their reactions grow worse over time. Yale doctors offer strategies for coping.

Ayala Danzig, MD, MSW, a fourth-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been named Chair of the Assembly Committee of Resident-Fellow Members at the American Psychiatric Association (APA).