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The Yale Child Study Center hosted a visit from the China Consortium of Leading Hospitals in Child and Adolescent Mental Health in October. The delegation included sixteen child and adolescent psychiatrists from the People's Republic of China, hailing from Beijing, Shangai, Nanking, and Shenzhen.

Timothy VanDeusen, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, spoke to Psychiatric News for a story about the rational prescribing movement, also known as deprescribing.

A research team led by lead author Galina A. Portnoy, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, found that bidirectional intimate partner violence was the most common relationship violence pattern, with no differences in gender between who experienced and used violence in the relationship.

First author Patrick Worhunsky, DPhil, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, and senior authors Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience, and Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, MHS, assistant professor of psychiatry led a research team that examined vitamin D's ability to target dopamine release. The results were published in Biological Psychiatry.

Autistic brains have fewer synapses compared to neurotypical brains, PET scans show.

Two Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers and a scientist from the Yale Department of Neuroscience have been awarded Young Investigator Grants from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Terril L. Verplaetse, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry; Heather Snell, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience; and Zachary Harvanek, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are among 150 early career scientists worldwide honored with the award.

Yale researchers set out to identify practical steps to thrive in postdoctoral training, through a qualitative study where three distinct themes emerged.

In the latest edition of a spotlight series launched in February 2023 to feature integrated business operations (IBO) and administration staff at the Yale Child Study Center, Department of Psychiatry, and Department of Pediatrics, meet the IBO’s Human Resource Business Partner Anna DeAngelo.

Eight YCSC pediatric psychologists are now embedded in a wide range of primary care and medical subspecialities at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, offering targeted behavioral health care to medically complex youth.