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Matthew J. Girgenti, PhD, Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry, has been awarded a $90,000 grant by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for his study, “Understanding Suicide Through Postmortem Targeted Brain Multi-omics.”

Miraj Desai, PhD, Instructor in Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, was selected by the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program to be its featured fellow in late May.

Marney White, PhD, MS, Associate Professor of Public Health and a clinical psychologist at Yale School of Medicine, and colleagues analyzed the results of the first cohort of learners who took a self-care intervention course and found the intervention was effective in reducing stress, anxiety, and depression – even during the COVID crisis. The study was published in American Journal of Health Education.

Chyrell Bellamy, PhD, MSW, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, is first author of a paper in Social Work in Mental Health that describes the Imani Breakthrough Recovery Program, a faith-based recovery initiative that takes place in churches and assists people recovering from opioid use/abuse and other drug or alcohol problems.

Allison Ponce, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and colleague Ayşe Çiftçi, PhD, Professor of Counseling Psychology at Purdue University, led the creation of the Council of Chairs of Training Councils’ 2020 Social Responsiveness in Health Service Psychology Education and Training Toolkit.

First-year resident Eli Neustadter, MD, MS, is the first author of a paper published in Journal of Consciousness Studies. Aberrations of self-experience are considered a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). With Yale faculty mentors Matthew Steinfeld, PhD, and Sarah Fineberg, MD, PhD, and Katerina Fotopoulou, PhD, of the University College London, Neustadter proposes a novel theory to elucidate the developmental origins of embodied phenomenology in BPD.

The Kathy Carroll Memorial Playground will rise on property on Winchester Avenue in New Haven owned by Christian Community Action (CCA), with whom the late Carroll maintained a decades-long relationship.

Christy Olezeski, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Yale Pediatric Gender Program, discussed her work with non-binary youth on SiriusXM radio's Doctor Radio show.

Dana Small, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology, spoke on the PBS show "QED With Dr. B" about the science of taste. Small is director of the Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center at Yale.