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Yale Department of Psychiatry residents Henry Kietzman, MD, PhD, left, and Will Li, MD, PhD, right, have been named first and second prize winners, respectively, of the 2026 Lustman Award for Psychiatric Research.

Residents Samuel Dienel, MD, PhD; Noa Katz Shroitman, MD; and Hui Yang, MD, PhD, have been named recipients of the 2026 Thomas P. Detre Fellowship Award in Translational Neuroscience Research in Psychiatry.

Tolu Akinade, MD, PhD, and Henry Kietzman, MD, PhD, third-year residents, were recently awarded Travel Fellowship Awards from the Society of Biological Psychiatry.

Clinicians, residents, researchers, and advocates came together over two days in April to make the seventh annual Women’s Mental Health Conference a success.

A neurotransmitter known to quiet activity in the brain can sometimes do the opposite, researchers find, offering implications for psychiatric treatment.

Oluwole Jegede, MD, PhD; Henrique Oliva, MD, PhD; and Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, MHS, are co-first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in Journal of Addiction Medicine that examines treatment outcomes associated with contingency management for individuals with stimulant-opioid co-use.

Zachary Harvanek, MD, PhD, and Rajita Sinha, PhD, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research that concludes people with alcohol use disorder and obesity may have metabolic alterations that contribute to greater alcohol craving and risk of relapse.

"We can see clear changes in the brain in heavy cannabis users which reflect the consequences of ... THC over a period of time," Deepak D'Souza, MD, Vikram Sodhi ’92 Professor of Psychiatry, told The Guardian in a recent story.