John H. Krystal MD
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Translational Research; Chair, Department of Psychiatry; Chief of Psychiatry, Yale-New Haven Hospital; Director: NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Division, VA National Center for PTSD; Director, VA Alcohol Research Center; Medical Director, Schizophrenia Biological Research Center, DVA
Departments & Organizations
NIMH Research Training Program in Childhood-onset Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center
Psychiatry: Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Research Clinic | VA Alcohol Research Center | NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism | VA National Center for PTSD
Research Interests
Neurobiology; pharmacotherapy; genetics; neuroimaging; schizophrenia; alcoholism; PTSD more...
Education
- B.A., University of Chicago, 1980
- M.D., Yale University, 1984
Selected Publications
- Jiang L, Gulanski BI, De Feyter HM, Weinzimer SA, Pittman B, Guidone E, Koretski J, Harman S, Petrakis IL, Krystal JH, Mason GF. Increased brain uptake and oxidation of acetate in heavy drinkers. J Clin Invest. 2013 Mar 8. doi:pii: 65153. 10.1172/JCI65153. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 23478412.
- Murray JD, Anticevic A, Gancsos M, Ichinose M, Corlett PR, Krystal JH, Wang XJ. Linking Microcircuit Dysfunction to Cognitive Impairment: Effects of Disinhibition Associated with Schizophrenia in a Cortical Working Memory Model. Cereb Cortex. 2012 Nov 29. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 23203979.
- Anticevic A, Cole MW, Murray JD, Corlett PR, Wang XJ, Krystal JH. The role of default network deactivation in cognition and disease. Trends Cogn Sci. 2012 Dec;16(12):584-92. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.10.008. PubMed PMID:23142417; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3501603.
Articles
March 2013
Mapmakers of the living human body
Imagine trying to develop a drug and being able to see how and where that drug acts inside the body of a living person....
May/June 2011
A famously funny man backs Yale work on a deadly serious disease
For author, blogger, raconteur, and talk-show host Dick Cavett, when the topic is depression, it’s personal. Cavett had...
March 2012
Psychiatry chair is president of leading brain and behavior society
John H. Krystal, M.D., the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Translational Research, chair of the School of Medicine’s...
Sept/Oct 2011
Another side of ‘Dr. Ruth’ seen in session on resilience after trauma
Ruth Westheimer, Ed.D., is best known as “Dr. Ruth,” the unabashed sex therapist who gained fame on radio and TV in the...
July/August 2010
A familiar voice speaks up for Alzheimer’s patients, research
It began with a sweatshirt. In December 2007, when Tony- and Emmy-Award-winning actor David Hyde Pierce appeared on...
Jan/Feb 2006
Yale, VA supporting troops on the home front
More than 1.2 million Americans have gone to war in Iraq and Afghanistan since September 2001, over a quarter of whom...
Sept/Oct 2011
Adding antipsychotics does little for PTSD
Treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a severe anxiety disorder that can follow traumatic events,...
Jan/Feb 2009
For faculty - past, present and future
In 1879, 23-year-old Robert McNeil, who had recently graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science,...
Sept/Oct 2009
Experts on mental illness, multiple sclerosis are newest chairs
Summer brought the appointment of two renowned physician–scientists as chairs of the School of Medicine’s departments...
Sept/Oct 2012
Yale alum builds a crucial bridge for psychiatry researchers
Over the course of an eventful life, Herb Allison, M.B.A., a 1965 alumnus of Yale College, has found himself in many...
May/June 2008
Cartoonist’s work on wartime trauma garners an award
In April, cartoonist Garry Trudeau, of “Doonesbury” fame, received the annual Mental Health Research Advocacy Award...
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