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The Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Doctoral Internship in Clinical & Community Psychology has been recognized as one of the most sought-after psychology internships in the United States, according to the website Online Psychology Degrees.

Yann Mineur, PhD, MS, research scientist in psychiatry, and Marina Picciotto, PhD, Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center, of Neuroscience and of Pharmacology, are first and senior authors, respectively of a paper in Molecular Psychiatry that studied acetylcholine release in the hippocampus in response to stress.

Psychiatry professor Cindy Crusto, PhD, has accepted the role of Associate Dean for Gender Equity and director of the Office for Women in Medicine and Science beginning in January 2022.

Susan Rubman, PhD, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, and Lynelle Schneeberg, PsyD, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, spoke to HuffPost about strategies to recreate good sleep habits that may have been disrupted during the pandemic.

Cindy Crusto, PhD, professor of psychiatry, has been appointed associate dean for gender equity and director of the Office for Women in Medicine and Science beginning in January 2022.

Forget New Year's resolutions; want to start a habit that sticks? Make it easy and reward yourself.

As researchers and clinicians continue to grapple with the psychological fallout from COVID-19, a growing body of literature has examined the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the general public. Women’s Health Research at Yale and its collaborators published a study questioning how these estimates vary so greatly and if such wide swaths of the public can truly be suffering from pandemic-related PTSD.

A study funded in part by Women's Health Research at Yale found that background stressors explain higher reports of psychological distress in female health care providers.

To explore how to promote psychological resilience and prevent negative health outcomes among such individuals, Dr. Melissa Thomas investigated the long-term physical and mental health risks and resilience of her fellow graduates from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. It was the first study to focus on graduates and consider gender differences in these topic areas since the elite institution’s integration of women in 1980.