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Eight YCSC pediatric psychologists are now embedded in a wide range of primary care and medical subspecialities at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, offering targeted behavioral health care to medically complex youth.

The Yale Pediatric Gender Program (YPGP) and its co-founder and director, Christy Olezeski, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, have been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA) Community Partnership Award.

A new grant-funded study led by two Yale School of Medicine researchers will investigate deficient sleep as a mechanism of smoking relapse using a combined imaging study and clinical trial. Chiang-Shan Ray Li, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience, and Lisa Fucito, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, are the principal investigators.

Lisa Fucito, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Yale Tobacco Treatment Service, spoke to Psychology Today about her study of the drug varenicline, used for cessation of e-cigarette use.

Meet Garrett Ash, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (general medicine) and assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale.

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.

Lynelle Schneeberg, PsyD, assistant professor of psychiatry and a sleep psychologist, told TIME that people should log at least 5 1/2 to 6 hours of sleep every night. “That’s not what I want people to strive for,” she said, but it will allow you to log some deep sleep.

Twenty five residents graduated from the Yale Department of Psychiatry Residency Program at a ceremony June 20 at the New Haven Lawn Club.

Waking up throughout the night is normal. Most adults do it between two and six times per night — and if you’re a good sleeper, these wakings will be so brief that you likely won’t remember them, Lynelle Schneeberg, PsyD, assistant professor of psychiatry, told TIME in a recent interview.