Ariadna Forray, MD
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The overarching goal of Dr. Forray’s research is to address our knowledge gap and lack of treatments for substance use and psychiatric disorders in the perinatal period. Her early work focused on perinatal mental health and specifically examined the different manifestations and impact of anxiety disorders in pregnancy. She explored the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in pregnant women with prior pregnancy complications and the effect of pregnancy, childbirth, and menstruation on the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Her exploration of the role of reproductive hormones in the presentation of psychiatric disorders led to her current research developing novel interventions for the treatment of substance use disorders in pregnancy and postpartum.
She published the first study to examine pregnancy-related abstinence and postpartum relapse into substance use prospectively. As a principal investigator (PI) and co-investigator on several federally funded grants, she has developed and implemented addiction and mental health treatment interventions. Some of her work includes a National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded study on the use of progesterone as a postpartum smoking relapse prevention treatment, a National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)-funded research testing an innovative technique using smartphones to administer attentional bias modification for smoking-related cues as a postpartum relapse prevention intervention for Black and Hispanic perinatal women, and a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)-funded clustered randomized trial evaluating the effectiveness of two models for providing support to obstetricians caring for pregnant and postpartum women with an opioid use disorder across 12 sites in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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