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Three members of the Yale Department of Psychiatry are serving as elected members of volunteer boards in their communities, helping to shape policy while prioritizing and tracking spending on behalf of constituents.
- December 03, 2019
Millie Grenough, LCSW, MAT, MSW, Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, spoke to WTNH-TV News 8 about strategies to avoid stress and express gratitude during the holidays.
- December 03, 2019
The Yale Department of Psychiatry is creating a new track for residents who are interested in the field of Public/Community Psychiatry, broadly defined as the treatment of individuals with serious mental illness and substance use disorders who receive services supported by public funds.
- December 02, 2019
How brain alterations contribute to suicidal thoughts and behaviors is the subject of a new published review of brain scanning studies by Yale and international researchers. Hilary Blumberg, MD, John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience, and Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at Yale, is the paper's lead and corresponding author.
- December 02, 2019
Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Yale Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science, spoke on a podcast published by JAMA Clinical Reviews that reviews research on the epidemiology and possible adverse health effects of e-cigarette and nicotine use, and the pitfalls associated with using e-cigarettes as a method to stop smoking.
- November 29, 2019
Healthy Gifts That Are Doctor Recommended
- November 27, 2019
Simha Ravven, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, has been elected President-Elect of the Vermont Medical Society (VMS).
- November 26, 2019
Kathleen Carroll, PhD, Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry and Principal Investigator in the Psychotherapy Development Center for Drug Abuse at Yale, spoke to Healthline about her app CBT4CBT, which uses interactive exercises, movies, and graphics to help people stop using drugs and alcohol.
- November 26, 2019
Eric Lin, MD, a fourth-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, and David Chang, a student in Yale's Computation Biology & Bioinformatics program, placed fifth in the National NLP Clinical Challenges (n2c2) Clinical Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) Task.
- November 25, 2019
Sports neuroscientist Kun Liu, PhD, Visiting Associate Professor of Psychiatry, spoke to the Chinese news service Ecns.cn about his program Physical Exercise Affecting on Cognition and Emotion (PEACE). The program incorporates the interdisciplinary field of sports science, neuroscience, and analytical chemistry in studying how and why physical activities can have a unique effect on certain cognitions.
