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Elevate, a policy lab at Yale School of Medicine and Hopelab, a social innovation lab in San Francisco, Calif., recently teamed up in a collaboration focused on the MoMba® app, a social media application designed to strengthen the mental health of mothers as well as their connections with their young children.
- January 17, 2020
Bias against age is prevalent in many societies, embedded into societal institutions and expressed in individual perceptions and behaviors, and studies have shown that ageism can negatively affect older people’s health. As the aging population around the world continues to grow, these biases could add to already skyrocketing health care costs, say experts.
- January 17, 2020
On Jan. 17, during a four-day trip to Nigeria that is part of the Yale Africa Initiative, Yale President Peter Salovey met with officials to finalize plans for expanding the HAPPINESS Project, a program of the Yale Department of Psychiatry.
- January 16, 2020
Amir Garakani, MD, DFAPA, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, will be inducted into the American College of Psychiatrists at the organization’s Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on February 20.
- January 16, 2020
In the largest examination to date of the health consequences of ageism, or age-based bias, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health have found evidence that it harms the health of older people in 45 countries and across 5 continents. The study included over 7 million participants.
- January 14, 2020
Rajesh R. Tampi, MD, Professor Adjunct of Psychiatry, is the editor of the new book, “Psychotherapy in Later Life,” published by Cambridge University Press.
- January 14, 2020
The Yale Department of Psychiatry is soliciting applications from trainees in its Psychiatry Residency Program for the 2020-21 Thomas P. Detre Fellowship Awards in Translational Neuroscience Research in Psychiatry.
- January 10, 2020
New Haven innovator Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, founded on research and intellectual property from its CEO’s research in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, was named “Innovator of the Month” in December by U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
- January 07, 2020
“This is the richest set of results for the genetic basis of anxiety to date,” said co-lead author Joel Gelernter of Yale, the Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry, professor of genetics and of neuroscience.
- January 07, 2020
In a study published in Nature Communications, Alex Kwan, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and his research team found that within an hour after a mouse received ketamine, there is a substantial increase in the amount of calcium that goes into the dendritic spines for neurons in the prefrontal cortex.
