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For her groundbreaking research on the role of nicotine in addiction, memory and behavior, and the biology of drug addiction,
@MarinaP63
of
@YalePsych
,
@YaleCSC
,
@YaleNeuro
, and
@YaleMed
will be awarded the 2020 Marion Spencer Fay Award.
Congratulations to
@MarinaP63
of
@YalePsych
who will be honored with the Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences by
@CarnegieMellon
Neuroscience Institute. The recognition is for her many contributions to neuroscience research, mentorship, and service.
@MarinaP63
of
#yalepsych
and
@YaleMed
has been named director of Yale's Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, the largest doctoral program in the biological and biomedical sciences at the university.
We extend congratulations to our colleague,
@MarinaP63
, who will be honored next Thursday with the 2020 Marion Spencer Fay Award. The award recognizes a woman physician or scientist who has made an exceptionally significant contribution to health care.
Feeling stressed, anxious and uncertain lately? You are not alone. The good news is that there are strategies you can use to help yourself and others. via the
@YalePsych
Mood Disorders Research Program
#COVID19
#mentalhealthmatters
@YaleMed
Yale Psychiatry is pleased to share the Match List of new PGY-1, PGY-2, Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP), and Solnit Integrated Training Program residents. Congratulations, Match Class 2023!
#YalePsych
#MatchDay2023
#yalepsych
sadly shares the news of the death of Dr. George K. Aghajanian on July 4. Dr. Aghajanian was one of the founding pioneers of modern psychiatric neuroscience and one of the most important leaders and mentors in the history of
#yalepsych
.
A new paper by
#yalepsych
and
@YaleMed
researchers challenges scientists in the global neuroscience community to create a more diverse representation of study participants. Authors include, from left, Jocelyn Ricard, Termara Parker, and Dr. Avram Holmes.
@YalePsych
is profoundly sad to share the news of the unexpected death of colleague Dr. Kathleen (Kathy) Carroll, a clinical scientist in the department, who made seminal contributions to improving treatments for addiction.
From left,
@DrAyanaJordan
, Dr. Katherine Klingensmith, and Dr. Tobias Wasser appointed Associate Program Directors for the
@YalePsych
Residency Program, the department announced today. All three trained in the department and now hold faculty roles.
.
@YaleMed
alum
@drjessigold
was recently featured in
@stlmag
, where she discussed her work surrounding the well-being and mental health of physicians. Read the full story:
#YalePsych
The FDA just approved a new medication—derived from
#ketamine
—for treatment-resistant
#depression
. But how, exactly, can it help? Yale Medicine psychiatrist John Krystal, MD, a pioneer in ketamine research, tells you what you need to know.
Dr. Angela Haeny (
@DrHaeny
) has been awarded a K23 career development award by
@NIAAAnews
. Dr. Haeny's grant aims to improve alcohol treatment retention and satisfaction among Black adults. Read more:
#YalePsychFaculty
#YalePsych
Dr. Al Kaye, left, and
@DrChrisPitt
have been awarded a federal research grant to study the effects of the drugs MDMA and methylone as possible treatments for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. And while our society is well aware of female victims, often male victims of sexual assault are forgotten or neglected.
@DrJoanCook
of
@YalePsych
writes in
@PsychTimes
.
AZA Allsop, MD, PhD, is a First-Year
@YalePsych
Resident. He is also a music artist and co-founder of Renaissance Entertainment LLC, a company that operates at the intersection of art, science, and community building to drive culture. Read more:
@YaleMed
1/ I'm a 30yo doctor. I was supposed to get married next month.
I’m volunteering to treat patients with COVID-19 on the frontline. My medicine friends needed help and I’m not going to let them down.
I canceled my wedding. I wrote my will instead.
Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, a
@nytimes
best-selling author, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert, is the featured speaker at next Friday's Women's Mental Health Conference at Yale. Free registration:
@YalePsych
is pleased to announce that
@howiemandel
will be the 14th recipient of the department's Research Advocacy Award, to be presented April 14, 2018 at Neuroscience 2018 at
@YaleMed
.
#yalepsych
attended the
@HowardU
College of Medicine Residency Fair on Saturday in Washington, DC. Representing the department were, from left, Drs. Ruby Lekwauwa, Taiwo Alonge, and Lisa Harding.
Congratulations to Dr. Danielle Jackson of
@YalePsych
who has been accepted to the 2020
@HarvardMacy
Post Graduate Medical Education course for future academic clinician educators.
.
@SofiaNoori
is
#YalePsych
's first-ever Chief Resident of Digital Psychiatry. The chief resident position is the first of its kind in any medical specialty in the United States. Read more about Dr. Noori and her new role:
@YaleMed
#YalePsychResidents
Start by helping someone else to give your own emotional health a positive jolt. "Small acts are important," Dr. Steven Southwick of
@YalePsych
told
@nytimes
.
Congratulations to members of the
#yalepsych
2024 Match Class! The 20 new residents join us from 15 medical schools. They hail from hometowns within 11 different states and five countries, and collectively they speak 12 languages.
Mark your calendars.
@YalePsych
is fortunate to have one of our own,
@DrAyanaJordan
, scheduled to give Grand Rounds on Aug. 9. Talk title is "Bettering Our Communities and Access to Evidence-Based Treatments for Substance Use Disorders." 10:15 am Connecticut Mental Health Center.
The paper "In PTSD, Evidence That a Single Ketamine Infusion May Enhance Extinction of Recalled Traumatic Memories" by Drs. Or Duek, left, and
@harpaz_l
of
#yalepsych
has been named a 2023 Leading Research Achievement by
@BBRFoundation
.
In a study in Schizophrenia Bulletin, researchers including
@AlPowers7
of
#yalepsych
developed and validated the first tool to measure the amount and types of control voice-hearers exhibit: the Yale Control Over Perceptual Experiences (COPE) Scales.
Congratulations to
@crustoc
of
#yalepsych
and
@YaleMed
who has been chosen to receive the 2022 Outstanding Contributions for Mentorship in Racial Justice Award from the Society for Community Research and Action.
Two
#YalePsych
researchers have been awarded a $2 million grant from
@MichaelJFoxOrg
for Parkinson’s Research to conduct the first clinical trial of ketamine to treat depression in people with Parkinson’s disease. Read more:
@YaleMed
@sophie_eholmes
Physician writers
@AmandaJoyMD
, left, and Dr. Danielle Jackson of
@YalePsych
and
@YaleCSC
have writing featured in Capsules 2021, a collection of essays and reflections from the 2020–21
@YaleIMed
Residency Writers’ Workshop.
Meet Dr. Cindy Crusto (
@crustoc
), the first African American woman in the history of the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine to become a Professor. Read more about Dr. Crusto and her work:
#YalePsych
#YalePsychFaculty
@YaleMed
The late Dr. Ronald Duman of
@YalePsych
and
@YaleMed
was a pioneering neuroscientist who illuminated the impact of stress on the brain and transformed our understanding of how antidepressants work. Read his obituary:
Dr. Charles Dike is chair of the
@APAPsychiatric
Ethics Committee work group that released the “Resource Document on the Interface of Religion, Spirituality, and Psychiatric Practice.” It offers guidance on religious and spiritual issues in care.
Three
#yalepsych
faculty, from left,
@DrNiiAddy
, Dr. Laura Huckins and Dr. Ismene Petrakis, have been elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science & Engineering.
#YalePsych
researchers have marked a milestone in a study evaluating the impact of group song-making on hallucinations: The first group of participants has released the music created during its sessions. Read more:
@PhilCorlett1
@explorethesong
@YaleMed
Robert Kerns, PhD, of
@YalePsych
sat with
@JAMAPsych
to discuss his federally funded program of trials that will investigate nondrug approaches to pain management.
Congratulations our 2021 Match Class. We are so excited to welcome you to the
#YalePsych
family. We look forward to watching you learn and grow as you begin your training. Read more about our incoming residents:
#YalePsychResidents
#MatchDay2021
To mark World Mental Health Day,
@drjessigold
shares some very useful messages about managing mental health in this
@Forbes
article. Quoted is Dr. John Krystal of
@YalePsych
.
In recognition of
#BlackHistoryMonth
, Yale Psychiatry will spend the month of February highlighting the stories of Black faculty, trainees, and staff in the Department. Our final feature is Amanda Calhoun, MD, MPH, (
@AmandaJoyMD
) third-year resident. (1)
Congratulations to our new class of residents who matched with us today! Welcome to Yale - we're excited to have you.
Read more about our amazing new residents:
#YalePsychResidents
#MatchDay2022
#YalePsych
In recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Yale Psychiatry will spend the month of May highlighting the stories of Asian faculty, trainees, and staff in the Department. Today we feature Alex Kwan, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry. (1/
Homeless people are among the most vulnerable to
#COVID19
.
@YalePsych
's Dr. Emma Lo is making sure they still receive care amid the pandemic.
@YaleMed
@YalePsych
sadly shares the news of the unexpected death of Dr. Robert T. Malison, professor of psychiatry, on Saturday. At the time of his death, Dr. Malison was director of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.
@YalePsych
scientists from the lab of
@DrChrisPitt
may have found a cause for the sudden onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in some children, they report.
In recognition of
#BlackHistoryMonth
, Yale Psychiatry will spend the month of February highlighting the stories of Black faculty, trainees, and staff in the Department. Today we feature Taiwo Alonge, MD, MPH (
@TaiwoPAlonge
), first-year resident. (1)
Dr. Peter Na of
#yalepsych
is first author of a new paper that examines longitudinal risk and protective factors of suicidal ideation during
#COVID19
in a nationally representative sample of veterans with pre-existing psychiatric conditions.
#yalepsych
is proud to announce that Dr. Robin Bonomi and
@MikeMcClurkinMD
have been named this year's recipients of the Thomas P. Detre Fellowship Awards.
Congratulations to Dr. Chidinma Okani of
@YalePsych
who has been selected by
@APAPsychiatric
to be the Resident-Fellow Member Representative for Area 1 (New England and Eastern Canada). The appointment is for two years.
An effort by
@YalePsych
faculty to offer more mental health services in remote Nigeria will receive an assist today from
@Yale
President Peter Salovey. He meets with officials in Nigeria to finalize plans to expand the project.
Dr. Jane Taylor, Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry, of Psychology and of Neuroscience, recently donated her lab's PPE to help care providers at
@YNHH
respond to
#COVID19
. Read more:
@YaleMed
Today, featured on the daily
@Google
doodle, is the late Dr. Herbert Kleber who joined the
@YalePsych
faculty in 1968 and founded and headed its Drug Dependence Unit. He mentored many of the transformative leaders in the field of substance abuse research.
A new human genomics study led by
#YalePsych
scientists has identified genetic risk factors for opioid use disorder (OUD) and related substance use disorders according to a new large-scale genome-wide association study:
@YaleMed
From left, Drs. Joao De Aquino, José M. Flores, Victor J. Avila‐Quintero, and Mehmet Sofuoglu are co-authors of a paper in Addiction Biology that reviews studies which investigate pharmacotherapies for pain among people with opioid use disorder.
In times of unexpected uncertainty, such as the sudden appearance of a global pandemic, people may be more prone to paranoia,
@YaleMed
researchers, including
@PhilCorlett1
of
@YalePsych
, suggest in a new study published in
@eLife
.
#yalepsych
's Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology has selected its incoming class of 14 fellows who will spend a year training at
@YaleMed
beginning July 1. Meet them here:
@dylanggee
of
#yalepsych
and
@YaleMed
told
@WSJ
that anxiety and depression have been more prevalent during the
#COVID19
pandemic, and that can be tied to difficulties making day-to-day decisions like deciding what to wear.
We extend congratulations today to Dr. José M. Flores of
@YalePsych
who has been selected to receive a 2021
@SOBP
Chair’s Choice Travel Fellowship Award.
Dr. Ismene Petrakis of
#yalepsych
and
@DeptVetAffairs
has received the 2021 David M. Worthen Career Achievement Award. She has spent three decades improving and disseminating educational best practices in addiction psychiatry.
A paper by
@YaleMed
and
#yalepsych
researchers Dr. Loïc Labache, left, and
@AvramHolmes
, right, provides evidence that typical and atypical language lateralization is reflected throughout the functional architecture of the human brain.
Dr. Maria Crouch, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, received an F32 award from
@NIAAAnews
to study alcohol use among Alaska Natives. Read more about Dr. Crouch and her work:
#YalePsych
#YalePsychResearch
@YaleMed
We extend congratulations to Dr. Celeste Lipkes of
#yalepsych
whose manuscript of poems 'Radium Girl' was recently judged a finalist in a national book prize.
@YaleMed
New
#yalepsych
review in
@PNASNews
authored by Drs. John Krystal, Irina Esterlis and colleagues considers what scientists have learned from studies of
#ketamine
and suggests future directions for the optimization of rapid-acting antidepressant treatment.
From left, Drs. Lynnette Averill, Lorig Kachadourian and Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz of
@YalePsych
were honored by
@DeptVetAffairs
with Career Development Awards.
Dr. John Krystal of
@YalePsych
spoke to
@inversedotcom
about a new genetics study which reveals that eight common psychiatric conditions share deep genetic ties — suggesting these different diagnoses are not so distinct as we think.
#yalepsych
is proud to announce that Dr. Cindy Crusto has been appointed Associate Dean for Gender Equity and Director of the Office for Women in Medicine and Science at
@YaleMed
.
@crustoc
Hana Ali, MD, and Olusola Justin Ayankola, MD, second-year
@YalePsych
residents, have taken over leadership of the Yale Solomon Carter Fuller Association (YSCFA), a psychiatry department resident interest group.
#ICYMI
: If you're feeling stressed, anxious and uncertain lately, you are not alone. The good news is that there are strategies you can use to help yourself and others. via the
@YalePsych
Mood Disorders Research Program
#COVID19
#mentalhealthmatters
@YaleMed
The Kathy Carroll Memorial Playground will soon rise in New Haven in memory of the late
#yalepsych
scientist who worked quietly to provide for children in need.
@YaleMed
@DrAyanaJordan