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Women—but not men—with mild to moderate alcohol use disorder have lower levels of microglia, which could have significant health impacts.

Robin Masheb, PhD, professor of psychiatry is first author of a paper in International Journal of Eating Disorders that found weight management alone and with concurrent cognitive-behavioral therapy resulted in significant improvements in binge-eating disorder in U.S veterans with high weight.

Tami Sullivan, PhD, professor of psychiatry, spoke to the online news service ADDitude about the use of safety cards as an intervention tool for victims of intimate partner violence.

A multimodal digital program that incorporates health education, self-monitoring, and feedback and coaching was effective in helping young adults reduce their alcohol intake and improve their sleep health, according to a study published May 30 in JAMA Network Open. Lisa Fucito, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, is the study's first author.

Tami Sullivan, PhD, professor of psychiatry, presented to the Domestic Violence Criminal Justice Response and Enhancement Advisory Council of the Connecticut General Assembly on May 28.

Elizabeth H. Connors, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and in The Child Study Center, has been appointed as the director of training for the Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology.

Robert D. Kerns, PhD, professor emeritus and senior research scientist of psychiatry, has been selected as an inaugural inductee as a United States Association for the Study of Pain Fellow, the highest recognition of membership within the organization.

Yale researchers Sandra Resnick, PhD; Jessica Barber, PhD; Amber W. Childs, PhD; and Elizabeth Connors, PhD, are co-authors of a paper in World Psychiatry that calls on the global mental health community to explore measurement-based care (MBC) in a wider range of interventions and settings, including innovative suggestions to advance MBC in low and middle income countries.

The American Psychological Association is highlighting a special issue of Psychology of Men and Masculinities on the future of research in this area that includes a conceptual review by Thomas McMahon, PhD, emeritus professor of psychiatry and in the Child Study Center.