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

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. She also leads the PTSD clinical research program at the neurochemistry and neuroendocrinology laboratory at the

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. In 2020 she became director of the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research at Mount Sinai.

Biography

She received her Ph.D. in psychology and neurochemistry and her M.S. in biological psychology from the

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and completed her postdoctoral training in biological psychiatry in the psychiatry department at

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. In 2019, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. 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 Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that develops from experiencing a Psychological trauma, traumatic event, such as sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, warfare and its associated traumas, natural disaster ...

(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. 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. 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

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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

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* ''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

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References

External links

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Profile at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yehuda, Rachel 1959 births Living people American biochemists American geneticists American neuroscientists Jewish biologists Jewish neuroscientists Psychedelic drug researchers University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Natural Sciences alumni Jewish women scientists 21st-century American women Members of the National Academy of Medicine