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Yale researchers Dibyadeep Datta, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Amy Arnsten, PhD, Albert E. Kent Professor of Neuroscience and professor of psychology, led a study that probed a blood biomarker for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. The findings were published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.
- February 06, 2024
A new study by VA Connecticut Healthcare System and Yale School of Medicine researchers assesses how the most up-to-date genetic and psychosocial predictors of opioid use disorder compare and combine when predicting the risk of becoming dependent on opioids.
- January 16, 2024
Patients who use cannabis while being medically treated for opioid use disorder are not at greater risk of returning to non-medical opioid use, a new meta-analysis by Yale researchers reveals. Joao P. De Aquino, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Julio Nunes, MD, a second-year psychiatry resident, are co-authors.
- January 16, 2024
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Benefits Administration denied a higher percentage of service-connection disability benefits claims by people who suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder related to military sexual trauma than for people who submitted PTSD combat-related claims, according to a new study by Yale researchers, including lead author Aliya Webermann, PhD, and senior author Anne Black, PhD.
- January 02, 2024Source: Cambridge University Press
Carlos Grilo, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of psychology; Janet Lydecker, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry; and Ralitza Gueorguieva, PhD, senior research scientist in biostatistics, are co-authors of a paper in Cambridge University Press that tests the efficacy of naltrexone/bupropion maintenance treatment among responders to acute treatments for binge eating disorder.
- December 20, 2023Source: Molecular Psychiatry
A review in Molecular Psychiatry concluded ketamine-assisted electroconvulsive therapy is tolerable and may be efficacious in improving depressive symptoms, but a relative adverse impact on cognition may be an important clinical consideration. Greg Rhee, PhD, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, was the lead author.
- December 15, 2023
On September 12, Women's Health Research at Yale held its 25th anniversary celebration honoring decades of discovery and innovation.
- December 15, 2023
A commitment to the community starts locally, builds regionally, then nationally and internationally.
- December 08, 2023Source: American Journal on Addictions
Julio Nunes, MD, second-year resident, and Joao P. De Aquino, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in American Journal on Addictions that examines the impact of childhood trauma on delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol effects.
- December 07, 2023
A new study led by the National Center for PTSD and Yale researchers analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of more than 2,400 U.S. veterans to examine subjective ratings and key sociodemographic, health, and psychosocial correlates of well-being. Peter Jongho Na, MD, MPH, and Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, were lead and senior authors of the study, published in JAMA Network Open.