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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.

Gay and lesbian adults over age 65 are nearly 28 times more likely than heterosexual peers to engage in polysubstance use, a Yale team finds in a new study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports.

A digital cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program was more effective than clinician-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy in increasing alcohol abstinence in patients over an 8-month study period, according to a new Yale study. Brian D. Kiluk, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, is lead author of the study, published in JAMA Network Open.

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.

For its 20th anniversary, the Kavli Institute is hosting a one-day celebratory symposium. In alignment with our mission, we will highlight subfields of neuroscience: molecular and cellular neuroscience, disease, systems neuroscience, computational neuroscience, and development. This anniversary symposium will feature talks from renowned external speakers, Yale faculty, and Yale trainees. We hope you will celebrate with us during this very special event.

Joseph Deak, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been chosen to receive two awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), including a 5-year K01 career development award.

A new study, led by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD, utilized positron emission tomography imaging with [11C]PBR28, a radiotracer to measure 18-kDa translocator protein to better understand microglia, the resident immune cells in the brain of individuals with PTSD.