Latest News
Albert Powers, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, and Medical Director and Associate Director of the Yale PRIME Psychosis Risk Research Clinic, has received the Carol and Gene Ludwig Award for Early Career Research from the Carol and Gene Ludwig Family Foundation.
- October 14, 2021
Chidinma Okani, MD a third-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been selected by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) to participate in its Educational Outreach Program for General Psychiatry Residents.
- October 13, 2021
A team of researchers bridging the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine, the Yale Department of Psychiatry and the Yale School of Public Health were recently awarded an $11.8 million grant through the NIH Helping End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative. The grant will support the establishment of a research center to advance integrated treatments for chronic pain and opioid use disorder or opioid misuse.
- October 13, 2021Source: National Institutes of Health
Chyrell Bellamy, PhD, MSW, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, have been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant for their research "Culturally-responsive community-driven substance use recovery for Black and Latinx populations."
- October 13, 2021Source: The Hill
Michael Strambler, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, writes in The Hill that if people want schools to foster minds that are truly welcoming of diversity, we are better off framing our ideas in the universal terms that bind us together.
- October 12, 2021Source: Globe Magazine
Women's Health Research at Yale is working to incorporate sex- and gender-specific information into all aspects of medical training.
- October 12, 2021
The effects of suicide can ripple through families and communities, leaving loved ones with unexplainable grief and guilt.
- October 12, 2021
Supported by a $3.5M grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), faculty in the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine and the Yale Department of Psychiatry have partnered to implement a three-arm trial that will investigate the optimal approach to enhance post-discharge AUD treatment engagement and reduction of alcohol use.
- October 08, 2021Source: Handbook of Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Law
Alexander Westphal, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, is co-editor of the book, "Handbook of Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Law"
- October 08, 2021Source: Insider
"(The thigh gap) is not a standard of health, but an aesthetic standard that is often recommended for women. However, it is an unrealistic beauty ideal for many," said Janet A. Lydecker, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, in an interview with Insider.