 
Dr. John H. Krystal
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is designated as Kent Professor
Dr. John H. Krystal, the newly appointed Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, is an expert on the psychopharmacology and neurobiology of schizophrenia, traumatic stress and alcoholism and substance abuse.
His most recent research focuses on the neurobiology of schizophrenia and alcoholism, and he has developed several new investigative paradigms to probe possible neurobiologic abnormalities in schizophrenia. He also established clinical research programs using magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy in order to study the brains of healthy individuals versus those with psychiatric illnesses.
Krystal is deputy chair for research in the School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and is deputy director for clinical research in the Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities at the Connecticut Mental Health Center. He is author or coauthor of more than 100 articles on a wide range of subjects, including post-traumatic stress disorder, the body's responses to certain antipsychotic drugs, effects of sleep deprivation on depressed individuals and chronic alcohol use. He has also written numerous book chapters and reviews.
A graduate of the University of Chicago, Krystal earned his M.D. from Yale in 1984. He was an intern at the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven and a postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry at Yale before joining the faculty in 1988 as an assistant professor at the School of Medicine.
Currently director of the Yale-Department of Veterans Affairs Alcoholism Research Center, he also directed the Department of Psychiatry's Division of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. He was the founding chief of the Neuropsychiatric Studies Unit at the Schizophrenia Biological Research Center and currently directs the center's clinical division. He also held posts as chief of the Laboratory of Clinical Psychopharmacology in the Clinical Neurosciences Division of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and deputy chief for research and academic affairs for the West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Krystal has received numerous honors for his work, including the American Medical Association's Rock Sleyster Memorial Award for Outstanding Promise in Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association's Penwalt Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement by a Psychiatric Resident, the President's Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the Yale Department of Psychiatry's Chairman's Award and the Lilly Research Foundation Award for Research Excellence.
In 1998, Woodward/White, Inc. named Krystal as one of the "Best Doctors in America," and Connecticut Magazine cited him as one of "Connecticut's Top Doc's."
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