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Esperanza Diaz, MD, professor of psychiatry, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Academic Psychiatry by the American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry (ASHP).

Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD, Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, and Lisa Fucito, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, are co-authors of a commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine that proposes health care professionals and policy makers focus on developing targeted and tailored interventions to address e-cigarette use.

Brain activity related to alcohol craving and future heavy drinking is different across sexes, a new study finds, which could have implications for treatment.

Joao De Aquino, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Ismene Petrakis, MD, professor of psychiatry, are first and senior authors, respectively of a paper in The American Journal of Psychiatry that examines the overlooked link between alcohol use disorder and chronic pain.

Patients with PTSD experience both emotional numbness and hyperreactivity. A new study digs into how these contrasting symptoms are linked.

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.

The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) and Yale Latino Recovery Colectivo have launched the third year of their Disability Lived Experience Action Network grant.

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.

YCSC Professor Marc Potenza was quoted in this Psychology Today article on the risks and consequences of marijuana use for young adults.