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John Havlik, a Yale School of Medicine student; Greg Rhee, PhD; and Robert Rosenheck, MD, are co-authors of a paper in PLOS ONE that aims to determine the mental health-related quality of life with substance use disorders treatment use, and how substance legal status modulates this relationship.

Gerard Sanacora, MD, PhD, George D. and Esther S. Gross Professor of Psychiatry; and Sina Nikayin, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are featured in the first episode of a four-part Double Take video miniseries on depression from the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) has launched the new National Institutes of Health-funded Recovery Finance Project. The project aims to address the financial well-being of justice-involved people, including those who have been incarcerated with mental health challenges. Organizers, including Annie Harper, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, launched the project April 30 at a press conference on the New Haven Green.

Using multiple nicotine products can be associated with higher levels of nicotine dependence among youth and increased mortality in adults, compared with the use of one product alone, according to a recent study in Preventative Medicine. Patricia Simon, PhD, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, is lead author.

Doctors say CHS is rare, but its frequency may be growing. There’s no cure for this syndrome, with the only known, surefire treatment being abstinence from marijuana.

AZA Allsop, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, is a recipient of the first Renée Fleming NeuroArts Investigator Awards.

Ezra Griffith, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry, is featured in a new exhibit in the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Foundation's Melvin Sabshin, M.D. Library & Archives honoring the contributions that Black psychiatrists have made to APA's history.

The 2024 Women’s Mental Health Conference (WMHC) at Yale on May 3 will feature keynote speaker Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, a New York Times best-selling author, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert.

Frank Buono, PhD, associate research scientist in psychiatry; Jose Cortes-Briones, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry; and Emily Lee, MD, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, have been chosen to receive a 2024 Blavatnik Award by Yale Ventures.