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Deniz Bagdas, DVM, PhD, research scientist in psychiatry, presented an invited talk, “Distinct Patterns and Challenges of Nicotine Addiction in Women: Insights from Clinical and Preclinical Research” on January 15, 2025 at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Women and Sex and Gender Differences Workgroup.

Four Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers, Julio Nunes, MD; Rebecca Suh, PhD; Mehmet Sofuoglu, MD, PhD; and Joao P. De Aquino, MD, investigated whether pain predicts daily cigarette smoking and if daily cigarette smoking predicts the development of pain. The results were published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

The present study was commissioned by the Center for Connecticut Education Research Collaboration in response to a Connecticut State Legislative mandate calling for information about virtual reality (VR) use in Connecticut public high schools. The purpose of the study is to determine how many high schools in Connecticut are using VR, the purposes for which they are using them, the challenges and barriers to implementation they have faced, and the benefits they perceive.

Carlos Grilo, PhD, professor of psychiatry and psychology; Ralitza Gueorguieva, PhD, senior research scientist in biostatistics, and Yale co-authors tested the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy, lisdexamfetamine, and the combination of the two for binge-eating disorder comorbid with obesity. The results were published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Frances J. Griffith, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, and Lisa Fucito, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in Nature Digital Medicine that describes a user experience analysis, including natural language processing, from a digital intervention for reducing alcohol risk and improving sleep health in young adults.

Researchers are investigating how the tobacco industry is using social media to promote vaping to teens, and they are developing interventions for deterring e-cigarette use.

Yale researchers, including first author Carlos Grilo, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of psychology, and Ralitza Gueorguieva, PhD, senior research scientist in biostatistics, tested efficacy of lisdexamfetamine maintenance treatment for binge-eating disorder in a study published by Cambridge University Press.

Irina Esterlis, PhD, professor of psychiatry, and Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and of public health, are co-authors of a paper in The Primary Care Companion that examines the prevalence and key correlates of psychological resilience in Ukrainian mental health workers using a novel discrepancy-based psychiatric resilience analytic approach.

Melissa R. Schick, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been awarded a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study early detection and intervention of substance use among trauma-exposed individuals.