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Pochu Ho, MD; Matthew Goldenberg, MD, MSc; Kirsten Wilkins, MD; and Pamela Petersen-Crair, MD, MS, MPH, attended the annual meeting of the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry in Louisville in June.

Elie Abdelnour, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, was awarded the Psychiatry Clerkship Faculty Teaching Award at the annual Biopsychosocial Approach to Health (Psychiatry/Primary Care) Clerkship Awards Banquet at Yale West Campus on June 9.

Dwain Fehon, PsyD, professor of psychiatry and chief psychologist, psychiatric services, at Yale New Haven Hospital, has been awarded the 2026 Sidney J. Blatt Faculty Award by the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Psychology Section.

A shortage of mental health providers in Connecticut led to a program that expands access to life-saving care. ACCESS Mental Health and Substance Use for Moms was established in 2023, and is led by Ariadna Forray, MD.

The Yale Department of Psychiatry's Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology has selected its incoming class of 14 fellows who will spend a year training at one of nine clinical sites based at the Connecticut Mental Health Center and Yale New Haven Hospital.

According to Ariadna Forray, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Wellbeing of Women and Mothers at Yale School of Medicine, emotions experienced by some pregnant women aren’t an anomaly; they’re the norm. “It’s more the exception that I’ve ever met someone who’s been overjoyed throughout the whole pregnancy and is just ecstatic about it,” Forray told Vox.

“The symptoms of (seasonal affective disorder) — sadness, lethargy, sleeping in, eating more, loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed — are usually at their worst in January and February. But for many people, March doesn’t provide much relief,” explained Paul Desan, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, in The New York Times.

For some people, it’s [scanxiety) a sense of worry or dread about the scan itself and the discomfort it may bring, says Gabriel Cartagena, PhD., a psycho-oncologist and director of the Yale Psycho-Oncology Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven, CT.

Lynelle Schneeberg, PsyD, associate professor of psychiatry and a sleep psychologist, spoke to TIME about the German practice of ‘Lüften’ and why everyone should take part.