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A shortage of mental health providers in Connecticut led to a program that expands access to life-saving care. ACCESS Mental Health and Substance Use for Moms was established in 2023, and is led by Ariadna Forray, MD.

The Yale Department of Psychiatry's Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology has selected its incoming class of 14 fellows who will spend a year training at one of nine clinical sites based at the Connecticut Mental Health Center and Yale New Haven Hospital.

According to Ariadna Forray, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Wellbeing of Women and Mothers at Yale School of Medicine, emotions experienced by some pregnant women aren’t an anomaly; they’re the norm. “It’s more the exception that I’ve ever met someone who’s been overjoyed throughout the whole pregnancy and is just ecstatic about it,” Forray told Vox.

“The symptoms of (seasonal affective disorder) — sadness, lethargy, sleeping in, eating more, loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed — are usually at their worst in January and February. But for many people, March doesn’t provide much relief,” explained Paul Desan, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, in The New York Times.

For some people, it’s [scanxiety) a sense of worry or dread about the scan itself and the discomfort it may bring, says Gabriel Cartagena, PhD., a psycho-oncologist and director of the Yale Psycho-Oncology Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven, CT.

Lynelle Schneeberg, PsyD, associate professor of psychiatry and a sleep psychologist, spoke to TIME about the German practice of ‘Lüften’ and why everyone should take part.

Paula Zimbrean, MD, professor of psychiatry, talks to Everyday Health about medications for bipolar disorder management.

Learn to manage bipolar medication side effects such as weight gain, drowsiness, and brain fog with lifestyle changes and doctor-assisted treatment adjustments.

Several faculty and fellows in the Yale Department of Psychiatry gave presentations at the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, in November.