Rachel Yehuda

Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the lcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Mental Health Patient Care Center at the James J. Peters Bronx Veterans Affairs hospital, both in New York City. She has published severa! hundred papers and compiled over 10 edited vol u mes examining diverse aspects of traumatic stress in various populations. Her research on PTSD has included both human populations and animal models, neuroendocrinology, neuroimaging, genomic and molecular biological studies of trauma, experimental therapeutics including both pharmacological and psychotherapy tria Is, biomarkers, studies of genetic and epigenetic heritability, gender differences, and suicide.