About
Ismene L. Petrakis, MD, is affiliated with the US Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, and the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. Petrakis has published extensively on addiction, neurology, posttraumatic stress disorder, and veterans' mental health, with articles focusing on PTSD trends among US military veterans, treatment responses for alcohol dependence with co-occurring gambling issues, management of schizophrenia with alcohol use disorder, and the use of antidepressants in alcohol-dependent veterans. Collaborations include work with Douglas Leslie, Ian C. Fischer, Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, John H. Krystal, and Jon E. Grant.
