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Understanding Youth Nicotine Use to Prevent Initiation and Escalation
Using multiple nicotine products can be associated with higher levels of nicotine dependence among youth and increased mortality in adults, compared with the use of one product alone, according to a recent study in Preventive Medicine. Patricia Simon, PhD, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, is lead author.
Source: Yale News
1 May 2024
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$20M Federal Grant Renewed for Yale Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have renewed a $20 million grant for the Yale Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS). The Yale center is led by co-directors Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD, Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry; and Stephanie O’Malley, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry.
27 Sep 2023
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Yale Researchers Develop Holistic Metric for Measuring Weight Loss
Yale School of Medicine Researchers have developed a new weight loss metric geared towards veterans in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Source: Yale Daily News
18 Apr 2023
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Yale, VA Researchers Develop New Health Metric for Veterans
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have developed an alternative method to measure quality of life in veterans who seek weight management, eating disorder, and nutrition services.
27 Mar 2023
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Yale Study: First Nicotine Product Tried Correlates With Current Product Use and Nicotine Dependence in Youth
Young people who use smokeless tobacco as their first nicotine product may be more likely to try other nicotine products and develop nicotine dependence, according to a new study by Yale researchers. Patricia Simon, PhD, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, is the study's first author.
Source: Preventive Medicine
22 Feb 2023
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Comparative effectiveness of group v. individual trauma-focused treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder in veterans
Group cognitive processing therapy (CPT) was associated with a slightly smaller reduction of PTSD symptom severity than individual CPT or prolonged exposure (PE) in veterans at the end of residential treatment. There were no differences at 4-month follow-up.
Source: Psychological Medicine
16 Aug 2022
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Longitudinal Trajectories of Multiple Nicotine Product Use Among Youths in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study
Patricia Simon, PhD, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, and Ralitza Gueorguieva, PhD, senior research scientist in biostatistics, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in JAMA Network Open that examines the trajectories of nicotine product use among youth in the United States.
Source: JAMA Network Open
28 Mar 2022
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Masheb Receives Grant to Study Treatment and Identification of Eating Disorders for VA, DoD, and Underrepresented Americans
Robin Masheb, PhD, professor of psychiatry and director of the Veterans Initiative for Eating and Weight (The VIEW), has received a medical research program award grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) for a new clinical trial, "Building an Equitable and Accessible System of Eating Disorder Care for VA, DoD, and Underrepresented Americans with Eating Disorders (EASED Study)."
15 Feb 2022