Carolyn M. Mazure PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and of Psychology; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs; Director, Women's Health Research at Yale
Research Interests
Depression; Addictive behaviors; Women's health research; Gender specific aspects of health and disease and the interplay of stress
Research Summary
Carolyn M. Mazure is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. She created and directs Yale's research program on health and gender, Women's Health Research at Yale, which initiates and supports innovative studies on women's health and translates findings into practice. Professor Mazure's own research focuses on the development of models for understanding depression and addictive disorders, with a special emphasis on gender-based analyses.
Selected Publications
- Arnsten A, Mazure CM, Sinha R. This is your brain in meltdown. Scientific American, 306(4): 48-53, 2012 April
- Weinberger AH, Pilver CE, Desai R, Mazure CM, McKee SA. The relationship of major depressive disorder and gender to changes in smoking for current and former smokers: Longitudnal evaluation of the U.S. population. Addiction, 2012 March [In Press]
- Cosgrove KP, Esterlis I, McKee SA, Bois F, Seibyl JP, Mazure CM, Krishnan-Sarin S, Staley JK, Picciotto MR, O'Malley SS. Sex and hormones regulate availability of B2* - nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in recently abstinent tobacco smokers and nonsmokers. Archives of General Psychiatry, 69(4): 418-27, 2012
- Spann MN, Mayes LC, Kalmar JH, Guiney J, Womer FY, Pittman B, Mazure CM, Sinha R, Blumberg HP. Childhood abuse and neglect and cognitive flexibility in adolescents. Child Neuropsychology, 18(2): 182-9, 2012
- Edmiston EE, Wang F, Mazure CM, Sinha R, Mayes LC, Blumberg HP. Corticostriatal-limbic gray matter morphology in adolescents exposed to childhood maltreatment. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 165(12):1069-1077, 2011
- Weinberger AH, McKee SA, Picciotto M, Mazure CM. Examining antidepressant drug response by smoking status: Why is it important and how often is it done? Journal of Psychopharmacology, 25(10):1269-76, 2010
Articles
March 2013
Women’s Health Research at Yale celebrates 15 years of success
Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY), whose mission is to ensure that women are included in research studies, gender...
Nov/Dec 2009
Advocate for women’s health research is honored
In an October 29 ceremony held at the Hartford Marriott Downtown, Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., director of Women’s Health...
Nov/Dec 2008
Women’s health advocate honored for distinguished leadership
Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., associate dean for faculty affairs, professor of psychiatry and psychology and director of...
March/April 2008
Expert on women’s health issues is honored for leadership
Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., associate dean for faculty affairs, professor of psychiatry and of psychology and director of...
Jan/Feb 2007
$3 billion Yale campaign will benefit science and medicine
Nearly a decade after the close of its last major fundraising campaign, Yale has launched “Yale Tomorrow,” a five-year...
Oct/Nov 2005
Program aims to close the gender gap in medical research
Until the National Institutes of Health (NIH), America’s largest funder of biomedical research, required scientists to...
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