Yale Department of Psychiatry

The Yale Department of Psychiatry offers a wealth of research and training opportunities in diverse areas of patient-oriented research related to mental health. The areas of active investigation include: alcoholism, anxiety, drug abuse, depression, epilepsy, personality disorders, schizophrenia, women’s behavioral health, and clinical neurosciences. Further details about the available training programs are available on the departmental website below.

http://info.med.yale.edu/psych/

Center for Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism (CTNA)

A gap remains in the translation of basic research advances into clinical neuroscience insights related to alcoholism, despite a growing array of outstanding basic and clinical studies. A new generation of psychopharmacology, neuroimaging, and molecular genetic studies rooted in molecular neuroscience with broad clinical implications may contribute to bridging the gap between basic and clinical research. Basic and clinical neuroscience research has implicated cortico-limbic glutamatergic circuitry in ethanol reward, the vulnerability to alcoholism, and adaptations to chronic ethanol administration. The CTNA is designed to bridge the gap between the basic and clinical neuroscience of alcoholism. It will attempt:

1. to conduct programmatic research that will identify factors modulating cortico-limbic glutamatergic circuitry that contribute to ethanol reward, vulnerability to self-administration, and dependence;
2. to build from basic neuroscience insights to hypotheses regarding the etiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of alcoholism;
3. to facilitate transdisciplinary research within projects and between projects;
4. to establish a mechanism to rapidly review and fund pilot promising pilot projects;
5. to provide career development activities for graduate and medical students, postdoctoral trainees, and junior faculty that will promote their development and retention within the field of alcoholism research; and
6. to promote ethical and humane clinical neuroscience studies of alcoholism.

Training opportunities include seminars, conferences, and research opportunities for students, fellows, and junior faculty.

Contact information: (203) 932-5711, ext. 4256

http://info.med.yale.edu/ctna/