Rachel Yehuda
Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D. is currently Professor and Vice Chair for Veterans Affairs for the Psychiatry Department and a Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also Director of Mental Health at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division.
Her work has established how social, environmental and developmental influences interact with stress hormone regulators to define the neurobiology of vulnerability and resilience following trauma exposure.
Rachel has been one of the key scientists to define the biology of PTSD, while spearheading new approaches for PTSD prevention and treatment. Her team was first to publish gene expression and epigenetic findings in PTSD, to use advances in stem cell technology to examine PTSD gene expression in induced neurons, and to examine intergenerational effects of trauma. She recently developed The Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma, which integrates sophisticated brain imaging and molecular neuroscience in PTSD with clinical trials using MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and psychedelics.
She has authored more than 450 published papers, chapters, and books in the field of trauma and resilience.