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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.

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.

Amber W. Childs, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been appointed to serve on the Forum for Children's Wellbeing of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) investigators recently presented a proposed intervention aimed at one of psychiatry’s most dangerous transition points: the period immediately after a patient leaves inpatient psychiatric care, when suicide risk is at its highest.

Robert Pietrzak, PhD, MPH, left, and John H. Krystal, MD, right, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry that examines national trends in post-traumatic stress disorder prevalence among U.S. military veterans using data from the most recent National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study cohort.

From left, Sherry McKee, PhD; Tami Sullivan, PhD; and MacKenzie Peltier, PhD participated in a meeting hosted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in Maryland on May 14 and 15 to discuss evidence-based approaches to address the intersection of menopause, substance use, and behavioral health.

Steven E. Hyman, MD, right, core institute member and director of the Program in Brain Health at the Broad Institute, was presented with the 2026 Yale Department of Psychiatry Mental Health Advocacy Award.

A new study led by Yale School of Medicine's William Becker, MD, finds that an interdisciplinary, individualized approach to pain management, incorporating coaching support and health goal planning, can help reduce the impact of chronic pain on veterans.

The Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale University addresses the crisis in U.S. health care costs.