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Dr. Gretchen Hermes is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, serving as Medical Director of the APT Foundation and Chief Psychiatrist at the Yale Stress Center. She specializes in addiction psychiatry, focusing on co-occurring mental illnesses and the neurobiological mechanisms of drug craving and withdrawal. Her research explores the long-term effects of early life trauma and the role of mitochondrial proteins in mental health.
- Affiliations: Yale Stress Center, APT Foundation, Section of Comparative Medicine
- Education:
- MD/PhD, University of Chicago (2007/2003)
- Residency: Yale School of Medicine (2011)
- Postdoctoral work: NIH Immunology Program (2005), Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis
Research Interests: Dr. Hermes investigates addiction pharmacology, stress neurobiology, and the intersection of infectious diseases (e.g., Toxoplasma gondii) with mental health. She collaborates on studies involving pregnenolone’s effects on alcohol/cocaine craving and mitochondrial proteins’ roles in synaptic function.
Awards:
- NARSAD Young Investigator Grant (2015)
- Power Day Award (2011)
- APA-Pfizer Research Fellowship (2011)
Grants & Teams: Active in NIH-funded projects on stress biomarkers and addiction recovery. Leads the Neurobiology of Addiction course for psychiatry fellows and co-directs the Yale Stress Center’s clinical and translational research programs.