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Amber Childs, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, spoke to CNBC about new research showing young adults — ages 18 to 25 — report being unhappier now than people in their 40s and 50s.
- July 19, 2024
The Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical & Community Psychology honored 14 graduating Psychology Fellows at a commencement ceremony June 10 at the Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center.
- July 18, 2024
Little is known about eating disorder screening, diagnosis, and treatment beyond specialized clinics and settings designed primarily for adolescents and young adults. Procedures to address eating disorders are lacking in United States healthcare systems. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs interviewed U.S. military Veterans to obtain perspectives on how this is done in general healthcare settings.
- July 17, 2024Source: International Journal of Eating Disorders
Janet Lydecker, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Carlos Grilo, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of psychology, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in International Journal of Eating Disorders that tests the feasibility and acceptability of a treatment for weight bullying.
- July 11, 2024Source: The Atlantic
A new generation of "neurocosmetics" blur the rhetoric of beauty, brain science, and mental health.
- July 10, 2024Source: The New York Times
Those who are dependent on nicotine may experience withdrawal when they quit. They can feel anxious, nauseated, and shaky, said Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD, Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry and co-principal investigator of the Yale Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science, in a recent interview with The New York Times.
- July 02, 2024
A research project by Vaughn R. Steele, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Wan-Ling Tseng, PhD, assistant professor in the Child Study Center, will be funded with a Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health (CBMH) Pilot Award.
- July 02, 2024
Peter Jongho Na, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been chosen to receive a Career Development Award-2 from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
- July 01, 2024
David Klemanski, PsyD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, is the new director of continuing education for the Psychology Section of the Yale Department of Psychiatry. He succeeds Allison Ponce, PhD, who directed the program from 2015 to 2024.
- July 01, 2024
John Sellinger, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and of public health, have been honored with 2024 Distinguished Psychologist Awards by the Psychology Service of VA Connecticut Healthcare System.