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An exploratory study by Yale researchers found there is an enduring therapeutic effect in migraine headache after a single administration of psilocybin.

Lead author Greg Rhee, PhD, Assistant Professor Adjunct in the Department of Psychiatry, explores trends in co-prescribing opioids and opioid potentiators among U.S. adults in a recent article published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Researchers have successfully eliminated chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer cells in mice using a single injection of two viruses genetically combined and altered to be safe, leading to long-term survival and demonstrating a potential breakthrough treatment for women.

J. Corey Williams, MD, a graduate of the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program, collaborated with Cenk Tek, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Vinod Srihari, MD, Professor of Psychiatry to conduct a systematic review of published evidence on clozapine prescribing disparities across racial and ethnic categories.

Important questions remain regarding the relative benefits versus risks of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). In light of these challenges, the authors propose key ENDS research priorities to address these gaps.

Kunmi Sobowale, MD; Ashley Clayton, MA; and Megan Smith, DrPH, MPH, co-authored a paper in The Journal of Pediatrics that found lack of access to diapers was associated with more frequent pediatric visits for treatment of diaper rash and urinary tract infections.

Greg Rhee, PhD, Assistant Professor Adjunct, is first author of a paper published in JAMA Network Open that examines the trends of buprenorphine use in emergency departments in the United States from 2002 (when it was approved) through 2017.

Women’s Health Research at Yale announced funding for a new collaborative study with researchers at Mt. Sinai Medical Hospital in New York on the personal and professional stressors and coping strategies of frontline health care providers confronting the COVID-19 pandemic

Stephanie Yarnell-Mac Grory, MD, PhD, and Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, are the first and senior authors, respectively, of the paper, "Debates Regarding the Classification, Categorization, and Conceptualization of Problematic Internet Use and Video Gaming."