Dr. Rajita Sinha

Biography

Rajita Sinha is the Foundations Fund Endowed Professor of Psychiatry and a Professor of Neuroscience at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and a clinical neuroscientist, serving as the Deputy Chair of Psychiatry and the Chief of the Psychology Section. As the founding director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center, her research focuses on understanding the neurobiology of psychological stress and trauma, exploring resilient versus vulnerable biobehavioral coping mechanisms, and their implications for neuropsychiatric diseases such as alcohol use disorders, chronic pain, and PTSD. She has developed innovative paradigms for studying stress and craving to gain insights into the mechanisms related to addictive behaviors and their clinical outcomes. Sinha has successfully led numerous NIH-funded research projects and has published extensively on these topics. She received the Distinguished Researcher Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism in 2020 and the James Tharpe Award for outstanding contributions to addiction research. Sinha is actively involved in national and international conferences and serves on NIH review committees. Her work is highly cited and significantly contributes to the field of addiction and stress research.

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