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As California wildfires grow more intense, frequent, and widespread, many children who live through them are experiencing lasting psychological trauma such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Early detection and treatment can reverse the condition and prevent type 2 diabetes.

Using machine learning, scientists can create models to make predictions about the behavior and health of individuals.Yale researchers examined why these models tend to fail, why that happens, and what can be done about it.

Rajita Sinha, PhD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience, spoke to Prevention about how men and women are impacted by stress.

Researchers evaluated various approaches to fMRI and found that zooming out and taking a wider field of view captures additional relevant information that a narrow focus leaves out, offering greater understanding of neural interplay.

Two Yale School of Public Health professors are being honored with awards by the American Psychological Association for their work in trauma psychology.

Yale endocrinologists are leaders in the study and treatment of diabetes.

Projects examining climate change and urban health, substance use disorder and mental health, and the relationship between food insecurity and hypertension have been selected as the recipients of this year’s Hecht Global Health Faculty Network Awards issued annually by the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH).

The results are comparable to those doctors see with gastric bypass surgery, experts say.