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The results of the Yale Child Study Center Spring 2024 round of awards for the department’s postgraduate travel award have been announced. The award offers $500 toward travel expenses for YCSC postgraduate associates attending national or international scientific conferences.

Sydney Yurkow, PhD, associate research scientist in psychiatry, is first author of a research paper named winner of the Best Original Research Paper by an Early Career Scholar published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders.

The AACR Annual Meeting is the focal point of the cancer research community, where scientists, clinicians, other health care professionals, survivors, patients, and advocates gather to share the latest advances in cancer science and medicine. From population science and prevention; to cancer biology, translational, and clinical studies; to survivorship and advocacy; the AACR Annual Meeting highlights the work of the best minds in cancer research from institutions all over the world.

Yale School of Medicine has earned a top ranking for psychiatry education in a new survey by Inspira Advante, an independent admissions consulting firm.

Residents Nicholas Pratt, MD, RN, and Ricky Madhavan, MD, and Jeremy Weleff, DO, instructor of psychiatry collaborated on a viewpoint in JAMA Pediatrics that describes the use of large language model chatbots in social, educational, and therapeutic settings and the need to assess when children are developmentally ready to engage with them.

Eleven individuals and organizations from across Yale and New Haven were recognized during the annual Seton Elm-Ivy Awards ceremony on April 8.

A study by Becca Levy, PhD, professor of public health (social and behavioral sciences) and psychology, was referenced in a Washington Post story about better aging.

The results of the national match were announced for psychology internship programs on Feb. 16. Through this process, the Yale Department of Psychiatry's Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology selected its incoming class of 14 fellows who will spend a year training at one of nine clinical sites based at the Connecticut Mental Health Center and Yale New Haven Hospital.

Marco Galimberti, PhD, postdoctoral associate, and Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Genetics and of Neuroscience, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper on Molecular Psychiatry that investigates the genetic architecture and causal relationships between cannabis use disorder and lifetime cannabis use with risk for developing substance use disorders and substance use traits.