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Deak Receives Two Awards from National Institute on Drug Abuse
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.
27 Aug 2024
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Yale Study Finds Genetic Links Between Some Health Conditions and PTSD
A new study led by Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers and published in JAMA Psychiatry has identified numerous physical health conditions, particularly diseases of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, that have genetic links to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Gita Pathak, PhD, and Renato Polimanti, PhD, are first and senior authors, respectively.
1 Nov 2023
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In Study of Veterans, Positive Personality Traits Moderate Persistent High Alcohol Consumption
Peter Na, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and of public health, led a research team that examined the psychosocial moderators of high alcohol consumption determined by polygenic risk in military veterans.
Source: Psychological Medicine
22 Sep 2023
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Women With Endometriosis Also Genetically Predisposed to Depression, Anxiety, and Eating Disorders
The largest epidemiological study to date on the psychiatric factors that can accompany endometriosis has demonstrated that depression, anxiety, and eating disorders are not only a result of the chronic pain endometriosis generates, but also have their own underlying genetic mechanisms.
1 Aug 2023
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Yale-led Study Pinpoints Why Some Adults Develop Hearing Problems
A new study led by Yale School of Medicine scientists has pinpointed why some adults – by some estimates, at least 50 percent of the population after 75 years of age – develop hearing problems.
11 May 2023
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Epidemiologic and Genetic Associations of Endometriosis With Depression, Anxiety, and Eating Disorders
A Yale-led study published in JAMA Network Open is the first large-scale analysis to investigate phenotypic and genetic factors contributing to the psychiatric comorbidity of endometriosis, a complex gynecologic disease.
17 Jan 2023
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A Therapeutic Target for High Blood Pressure Control
Yale researchers have identified a potential target for the development of antihypertensive drugs.
10 Jan 2023
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Yale Scientists Identify Genetic Risk Factors Associated With Habitual Heavy Drinking
A new study led by Yale scientists has identified genetic risk factors associated with habitual heavy drinking.
27 Oct 2022
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Polimanti Receives NIMH Grant To Study Internalizing Disorders, COVID-19
Renato Polimanti, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, has received a 3-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to evaluate the association of internalizing disorders with the risk, onset, and vulnerability of COVID-19.
15 Sep 2022
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Yale Study Shows Social Support Is Key To Suicide Prevention For Veterans
The veteran suicide rate is nearly double that of the general population, according to a new study by Yale Psychiatry researchers. The study was featured on NBC Connecticut.
Source: NBC Connecticut
17 Nov 2021
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Polimanti Chosen to Receive One Mind Rising Star Computational Psychiatry Research Award
Renato Polimanti, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, has been chosen to receive the One Mind Rising Star Computational Psychiatry Research Award.
24 Aug 2021
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Large Genomic Analysis Highlights COVID-19 Risk Factors
In March 2020, thousands of scientists around the world, including Yale's Renato Polimanti, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Gita Pathak, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate; and Frank Wendt, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, united to answer a pressing and complex question: What genetic factors influence why some COVID-19 patients develop severe, life-threatening disease requiring hospitalization, while others escape with mild symptoms or none at all?
9 Jul 2021
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Largest Genome Study to Date of Anxiety Reveals New Risk Variants and Suggests Possible Biological Mechanisms
Daniel Levey, PhD, Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry, and Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Genetics and of Neuroscience, are among the authors of a study relating DNA variations and anxiety disorders which has revealed several previously unidentified locations in the human genome where variations in the sequence tend to occur in people with anxiety, compared with people who don't have anxiety.
Source: Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
27 Apr 2021
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Genetic Analysis of Symptoms Yields New Insights Into PTSD
Attempts to identify the genetic causes of neuropsychiatric diseases such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through large-scale genome-wide analyses have yielded thousands of potential links. The challenge is further complicated by the wide range of symptoms exhibited by those who have PTSD. For instance, does extreme arousal, anger, or irritation experienced by some have the same genetic basis as the tendency to re-experience traumatic events, another symptom of the disorder? A new study led by researchers at Yale and the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) provides answers to some of these questions and uncovers intriguing genetic similarities between PTSD and other mental health disorders such as anxiety, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
Source: Yale News
27 Jan 2021
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Yale Study: Multivariate Genome-wide Analysis of Education, Socioeconomic Status and Brain Phenome
The study “Multivariate genome-wide analysis of education, socioeconomic status and brain phenome” by five Yale researchers was published November 21 in Nature Human Behaviour.
20 Dec 2020
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Gelernter, Polimanti New Editors-in-Chief of Complex Psychiatry
Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Genetics and of Neuroscience; and Renato Polimanti, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, will co-lead the journal Complex Psychiatry, which recently changed its name from Molecular Neuropsychiatry.
3 Sep 2020
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Polimanti to Participate in UVA's Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab
Renato Polimanti, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, is going to be part of the the 2020-2021 Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab at the Brain Institute of the University of Virginia.
26 Aug 2020
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Yale Genomics Study: Helping Researchers Better Understand the Opioid Epidemic
A human genomics study led by two Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers identified specific genetic regions that link opioid exposure and dependence to neuropsychiatric traits like risk-taking behaviors, alcohol abuse, and depression.
25 Feb 2020
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Yale Researchers Study Association of Economic Status and Educational Attainment with PTSD
Renato Polimanti, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, is the lead author of a genome-wide study that found economic status mediates negative associations of cognitive ability and educational attainment in people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
3 May 2019
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Genes confer intelligence ... and increase autism risk
Genetic variants that have persisted through human evolution appear to enhance intellectual accomplishment while increasing the risk of autism spectrum disorders, Yale researchers reported in a study published in the journal PLOS Genetics in February. The variants appear to have been conserved..
24 May 2017