Rachel Yehuda
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
Biography
She received her Ph.D. in psychology and neurochemistry and her M.S. in biological psychology from the
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. [3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
Publications
Author
- The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling: A Guide for All Faiths with Michelle Friedman, published November 17, 2016, by Routledge
- Yehuda, Rachel (July 1, 2022). "How Parents' Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children / Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways". Scientific American. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0722-50. Archived from the original on June 21, 2022. Retrieved June 22, 2022.)()
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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
- ^ "Mount Sinai launches psychedelics research center". EurekAlert!. 2021-01-07. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ "Rachel Yehuda, PHD, Elected to National Academy of Medicine | Mount Sinai - New York".
- ^ R Yehuda citation record in Google Scholar
- ^ "Rachel Yehuda - How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations". On Being with Krista Tippett. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
- ^ Genes associated with posttraumatic-stress disorder (PTSD) https://patents.google.com/patent/US9243293B2/en and https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2334816A1/en
External links
- Publications by Rachel Yehuda at ResearchGate
- Profile at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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