Rachel Yehuda
{{short description|Professor of psychiatry and neuroscience}}
Rachel Yehuda (born 1959) is a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience, the vice chair for veterans affairs in the psychiatry department, and the director of the traumatic stress studies division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She also leads the PTSD clinical research program at the neurochemistry and neuroendocrinology laboratory at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center. In 2020 she became director of the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research at Mount Sinai.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2021-01-07|title=Mount Sinai launches psychedelics research center|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/tmsh-msl010721.php|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-12|website=EurekAlert!|language=en}}
Biography
She received her Ph.D. in psychology and neurochemistry and her M.S. in biological psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and completed her postdoctoral training in biological psychiatry in the psychiatry department at Yale Medical School.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} In 2019, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2019/rachel-yehuda-phd-elected-to-national-academy-of-medicine|title = Rachel Yehuda, PHD, Elected to National Academy of Medicine | Mount Sinai - New York}}
She has authored more than 500 published papers, chapters, and books in the field of traumatic stress and the neurobiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her interests include the study of risk and resilience factors, psychological and biological predictors of treatment response in PTSD, genetic and epigenetic studies of PTSD and the intergenerational transmission of trauma and PTSD. [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22R+Yehuda%22&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C33&as_sdtp= R Yehuda citation record in Google Scholar]
She has an active federally funded clinical and research program that welcomes local and international students and clinicians. Her research has focused on PTSD in combat veterans, the children of Holocaust survivors and the children of pregnant women who survived the 9/11 attacks.{{cite web|url= http://www.onbeing.org/program/rachel-yehuda-how-trauma-and-resilience-cross-generations/transcript/7791| title= Rachel Yehuda - How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations | website = On Being with Krista Tippett| accessdate= September 3, 2015}} Her work on diagnostic blood biomarkers for PTSD has yielded a patent approved in the US (9,243,293) and Europe (2334816) for diagnosis and treatment stratification for PTSD.Genes associated with posttraumatic-stress disorder (PTSD) https://patents.google.com/patent/US9243293B2/en and https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2334816A1/en
Publications
= Author =
- The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling: A Guide for All Faiths with Michelle Friedman, published November 17, 2016, by Routledge
- {{cite journal |last1=Yehuda |first1=Rachel |title=How Parents' Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children / Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways |journal=Scientific American |date=July 1, 2022 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0722-50 |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-parents-rsquo-trauma-leaves-biological-traces-in-children/ |access-date=June 22, 2022 |archive-date=June 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621045949/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-parents-rsquo-trauma-leaves-biological-traces-in-children/ |url-status=bot: unknown |url-access=subscription }}()
= Contributor =
- The Psychobiology of Trauma and Resilience Across the Lifespan, published September 5, 2008, by Jason Aronson, Inc.
= Editor =
- Psychological Trauma, published August 1, 1998, by American Psychiatric Association Publishing
- Risk Factors for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, published April 1, 1999, by American Psychiatric Association Publishing
- Psychobiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, published June 16, 2000, by New York Academy of Sciences
- Treating Trauma Survivors with PTSD, published May 2, 2002, by American Psychiatric Association Publishing
- International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma, initially published in 2000, republished November 11, 2013, by Springer US
References
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External links
- {{ResearchGate|Rachel_Yehuda}}
- [https://icahn.mssm.edu/profiles/rachel-yehuda Profile at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai]
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Category:American neuroscientists
Category:Jewish neuroscientists
Category:Psychedelic drug researchers
Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Natural Sciences alumni
Category:Jewish women scientists