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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.

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.

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.

Michael Strambler, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, writes in Education Next about social and emotional learning, which aims to teach students life skills like emotion and attention regulation, interpersonal conflict resolution, and responsible decision-making.

Aakash Basu, a PhD student in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, and Alfred Kaye, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are first and senior authors, respectively of a study in Biological Psychiatry that tracked the release of the hormone norepinephrine in response to threat.

Each year, the academy — an honorary society and independent policy organization with initiatives in the arts, democracy, education, global affairs, and science — elects new members in recognition of their notable achievements in academia, industry, policy, research, and science..

Jessica Wolf, PhD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, wrote a paper in the Community Mental Health Journal that explores benefits, accomplishments, and challenges faced by a peer-run organization during its 30-year evolution in offering self-help groups, supported housing, peer support services, peer specialist training, and systems change projects in Los Angeles County, California.

Marina Picciotto, PhD, Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and professor in the Child Study Center, of neuroscience and of pharmacology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Christina Cipriano's comprehensive meta-analysis, The State of Evidence for Social and Emotional Learning: A Contemporary Meta-Analysis of Universal School-Based SEL Interventions, has been recognized as the Top Cited Article in 2022-2023 for Wiley’s Child Development.