Yale Child Study Center

The Child Study Center is a department at Yale University School of Medicine which brings together multiple disciplines to further the understanding of the problems of children and families. Among the many disciplines are child psychiatry, pediatrics, genetics, neurobiology, epidemiology, psychology, nursing, social work and social policy. The mission of the Center is to understand child development, social, behavioral, and emotional adjustment, and psychiatric disorders and to help children and families in need of care. The Center is unusual in its scope of research, clinical services, training programs, policy work, and much local, state, national, and international collaboration. The strengths of the Center are reflected in the breadth and integrative nature of research, clinical services and training.

News

  • Yale researchers making headway in quest to solve autism's mysteries. Read about it by clicking here.
  • Teams of scientists working independently have for the first time identified several gene mutations that they agree sharply increase the chances that a child will develop autism.  Read about it by clicking here.
  • A brief therapy heals trauma in children, according to a new report from the Childhood Violent Trauma Center. Read about it here.
  • Autism redefined: Yale researchers study impact of proposed diagnostic criteria. Click here to read the press release.
  • Congratulations to Elena Grigorenko, Ph.D. on being named the inaugural holder of the Emily Fraser Beede Chair of Developmental Disabilties in the Child Study Center!
  • Two Child Study Center Postdoctoral Fellows were honored this past November at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting held in Washington, D.C. The meeting is the world’s largest gathering of neuroscientists and one of the best sources of emerging news about brain science. Drs. Susan Goebel-Goody and Nikisha Carty of the Lombroso Lab presented their work on STEP and the role this protein might play in two different neuropsychiatric disorders. Their posters were selected, from a pool of over 16,000 research presentations, for Society-sponsored press releases and for discussion at two press conferences held during meeting.
  • Dr. Steven Marans has been asked to join a Department of Justice task force  to examine and address the issue of children exposed to violence. Click here to read the press release.
  • Apple is currently featuring the Yale Autism Seminar (an undergraduate course taught by Drs. Fred Volkmar and James McPartland) on the iTunesU homepage!