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Frances J. Griffith, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, and Lisa Fucito, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in Nature Digital Medicine that describes a user experience analysis, including natural language processing, from a digital intervention for reducing alcohol risk and improving sleep health in young adults.

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.

A digital cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program was more effective than clinician-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy in increasing alcohol abstinence in patients over an 8-month study period, according to a new Yale study. Brian D. Kiluk, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, is lead author of the study, published in JAMA Network Open.

Investigators in the Yale Department of Psychiatry investigated the genetic profiles of more than 1 million participants enrolled in multiple cohorts around the world. Leveraging this large dataset, they uncovered more than 100 genes associated with anxiety. Eleni Friligkou, MD, MSc, and Renato Polimanti, PhD, MSc, are first and senior authors, respectively.

A new study, led by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD, utilized positron emission tomography imaging with [11C]PBR28, a radiotracer to measure 18-kDa translocator protein to better understand microglia, the resident immune cells in the brain of individuals with PTSD.

Bao-Zhu Yang, PhD, research scientist in psychiatry, has been awarded a grant by the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a study related to drug use and HIV.

In a study published in JAMA, Yale scientists found that tobacco companies have begun to market products thatcontain nicotine analogs that mimic highly addictive nicotine.

New research led by three Yale School of Medicine scientists aims to achieve better understanding of the molecular effects of alcohol use disorder (AUD) on certain regions of the brain.

As many as four out of every 10 teenagers and young adults who vape are modifying their e-cigarettes in ways that could expose them to burns, lung injury, and covert use of marijuana, a team of Yale Department of Psychiatry scientists found.