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Elie Abdelnour, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry; Catherine Burke, PsyD, assistant professor of psychiatry; and Adrienne Hicks, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry graduated from the YSM Education Scholars Fellowship on June 4.

Dwain Fehon, PsyD, professor of psychiatry and chief psychologist, psychiatric services, at Yale New Haven Hospital, has been awarded the 2026 Sidney J. Blatt Faculty Award by the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Psychology Section.

For many Parkinson’s disease patients, depression is the hardest part. A new Yale study may finally explain why standard antidepressants aren’t effective.

This month, Psychiatry@Yale features Robert Cole in the Staff Spotlight. Bob is a lecturer in psychiatry and chief operating officer of the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

A pilot trial conducted by Yale researchers, including first author Elcin Sakmar, PhD, left, and senior author Verica Milivojevic, PhD, right, suggests the hormone pregnenolone reduces cocaine craving and improves cocaine use outcomes in treatment seeking men and women with cocaine use disorder. The findings were published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Residents Shanté Jackson-Barnes, MD, and Brandon Manor, MD, have been elected to the Yale Minority Housestaff Organization E-Board.

In a recent interview with Psychiatric Times, resident William Li, MD, PhD, left, and Morgan Hardy, MD, MPH, right, instructor of psychiatry, presented a review of evidence on the combinatorial use of cognitive behavioral therapy with ketamine to extend the durability of antidepressant response.

A comparison of new psychosis cases occurring with and without cannabis exposure found differences in the cognitive, behavioral, and electrophysiological profile of psychosis occurring with cannabis exposure, raising the possibility it might represent a distinct type of psychosis. The paper, authored by Deepak Cyril D'Souza, MD, left, and Jose Cortes-Briones, PhD, right, and colleagues was published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.

Yale New Haven Hospital celebrated its bicentennial May 27, marking 200 years of advancing patient care, medical innovation, and community service while looking ahead to its third century.