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Pulido Saavedra Selected to Receive ISAM Travel Award
Alejandra Pulido Saavedra, MD, postdoctoral associate in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been awarded a travel grant to attend and present her research at the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) Annual Meeting in Hamburg, Germany, from May 26-28, 2025.
28 Feb 2025
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Five Faculty Elected to Associate Membership of ACNP
Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, MHS; Joao P. De Aquino, MD; Matthew Girgenti, PhD; Elizabeth Goldfarb, PhD; and Rajiv Radhakrishnan, MD, have been elected to Associate Membership of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
13 Dec 2024
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Vitamin D’s Capacity to Increase Amphetamine-Induced Dopamine Release in Healthy Humans: A Clinical Translational [11C]-PHNO Positron Emission Tomography Study
First author Patrick Worhunsky, DPhil, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, and senior authors Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience, and Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, MHS, assistant professor of psychiatry led a research team that examined vitamin D's ability to target dopamine release. The results were published in Biological Psychiatry.
Source: Biological Psychiatry
16 Oct 2024
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Microglia-Mediated Neuroimmune Suppression in PTSD Is Associated With Anhedonia
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.
23 Aug 2024
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Oliva Receives Travel Award to Attend AAAP Annual Meeting
Henrique Oliva, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral associate in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been selected to receive the John Renner Travel Award from the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP).
13 Aug 2024
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Pulido Saavedra Selected to Receive ASHP Travel Award
Alejandra Pulido Saavedra, MD, a postdoctoral associate, was selected to receive a travel award to attend and present her work at the American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry (ASHP) annual meeting in New York on May 3 and 4, 2024.
22 Apr 2024
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Substance Use and Spine Density: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Preclinical Studies
Henrique Oliva, MD, PhD, postdoctoral associate; Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, MHS, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Yale colleagues conducted comprehensive meta-analysis on spine density as it relates to substance use. The findings were published in Molecular Psychiatry.
Source: Molecular Psychiatry
2 Apr 2024
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Four Yale Psychiatry Researchers Awarded Grants to Study Alcohol Use Disorder
Four Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers have received grants for two investigations related to the study of alcohol use disorder.
16 Aug 2023
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Discriminating cocaine use from other sympathomimetics using wearable electrocardiographic (ECG) sensors
Yale Psychiatry researchers believe the development and refinement of technological tools (i.e., remote wireless sensors and machine learning algorithms) for the detection of drug use may have potential in multiple settings including for clinical care, as reported in this new paper published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence
3 Aug 2023
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De Aquino Awarded IMPOWR-YOU Grant to Study Pain Sensitivity, Opioid Use Disorder
Joao P. De Aquino, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been awarded a pilot grant from the Integrative Management of Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder for Whole Recovery-Yale and Organizations United (IMPOWR-YOU) Research Center to evaluate the relationship between pain sensitivity and brain synaptic density among people with opioid use disorder (OUD).
8 Sep 2022
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Yale Study: Lower Prefrontal Cortical Synaptic Vesicle Binding in Cocaine Use Disorder
Yale researchers, led by Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, have published a paper in Addiction Biology that explores whether synaptic density in the brain is altered in cocaine use disorder.
12 Dec 2021
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Remission of Subacute Psychosis in a COVID-19 Patient with an Anti-Neuronal Autoantibody After Treatment With Intravenous Immunoglobulin
Brooke Lifland, MD, Third-Year Resident, is co-first author of a paper in Biological Psychiatry that describes a case of a patient with COVID-associated psychosis that was effectively treated with intravenous immunoglobulin
Source: Biological Psychiatry
20 Apr 2021
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Residents, Fellows, Faculty Honored at 2019 Commencement Ceremony
The Yale Department of Psychiatry honored residents, fellows, and faculty at its annual Commencement ceremony on June 13, 2019.
1 Jul 2019
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Lower synaptic density is associated with depression severity and network alterations
Sophie Holmes, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, and Irina Esterlis, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, are the first and senior authors, respectively, of a study published in Nature Communications that examined synaptic density in 26 patients with major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. The research revealed evidence linking lower synaptic density to network alterations and symptoms of depression.
Source: Nature Communications
4 Apr 2019
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Residents, fellows, faculty contribute to book '50 Studies Every Psychiatrist Should Know'
Fifty Yale Department of Psychiatry residents, fellows, and faculty contributed to a new book that presents key studies that have shaped the practice of psychiatry.
7 May 2018
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Fourteen Yale affiliates awarded NARSAD Young Investigator grants
Fourteen Yale affiliates, including several from the Yale Department of Psychiatry, have been awarded research grants through the Brain & Behavior Foundation’s NARSAD Young Investigator Grant Program.
14 Oct 2016
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Wilkinson to receive 2016 Chair's Choice Award at SOBP annual meeting
Samuel Wilkinson, MD, a fourth-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been chosen to receive a 2016 Chair’s Choice Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry.
19 Nov 2015
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2014 YCCI Scholars
The YCCI November 2015 Newsletter - Education Edition is available online. Meet the 2014 YCCI Scholars.
9 Nov 2015
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Department of Psychiatry announces promotions, new faculty appointments
Please join the Yale Department of Psychiatry in congratulating promoted faculty and welcoming its newest assistant professors, associate research scientists, instructors, and clinicians.
9 Dec 2013