Research Programs By Condition

Departmental research programs constitute national centers of excellence across a broad range of psychiatric illnesses. Organized around the understanding and treatment of specific psychiatric conditions, our research specialty clinics allow dedicated teams of clinicians and scientists to work together to meet their patients’ unique needs and to translate the latest science into new breakthroughs for the treatment of their condition. The following is a list of conditions and illnesses to which departmental research clinics and programs are dedicated:

Addiction / Drug Abuse

• Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory
• Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism (CTNA)
• Cocaine Research Clinic
• Financial Approaches to Behavior Change
• Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center
• Psychotherapy Development Research Center
• Smoking Cessation and Alcohol Treatment Clinic
• Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) on Sex and Gender Factors in Women’s Health
• Stress Center
• Tobacco Research in Youth (TRY)
• Yale Translational Brain Imaging Program
• Yale Translational Center to Develop Gender-Sensitive Treatment for Tobacco Dependence

Anxiety

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Research Clinic
• Center for Wellbeing of Women and Mothers

Bipolar Disorder

• Mood Disorders Research Program
• Yale Translational Brain Imaging Program

Alzheimer's Disease / Cognitive Aging

• Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit

Depression / Mood

• Depression Research Program
• Mood Disorders Research Program
• Center for Wellbeing of Women and Mothers
• Winter Depression Research Clinic
• Yale Translational Brain Imaging Program

Dual Diagnosis

• Alcoholism Treatment Center
• MIRECC
• VA Alcohol Research Center

Psychosis / Schizophrenia

• Learning Based Recovery Center
• Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center
• PRIME Psychosis Prodrome Research Clinic
• Program for Recovery and Community Health
• Psychosis Program
• Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Research Clinic
• Schizophrenia Research Clinc
• STEP (Specialized Treatment for Early Psychosis)

Stress / PTSD

• Clinical Neurosciences PTSD Research Program
• Stress Center
• Yale Translational Brain Imaging Program

Women’s Behavioral Health

• Center for Wellbeing of Women and Mothers
• Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) on Sex and Gender Factors in Women’s Health
• Women’s Behavioral Health Research
• Yale Translational Center to Develop Gender-Sensitive Treatment for Tobacco Dependence

Other

• Family Violence Research
• Pain Research, Informatics, Medical Comorbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center
• Program for Obesity, Weight and Eating Research (POWER) at Yale
• VA National Mental Health & Suicide Prevention ECHO