Scientists have identified several genes that when mutated can cause children to be born with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads. But exactly how these genes control brain size has remained unclear. A team of researchers headed by scientists at Yale...
Professor Laurie Santos’ final lecture of the most popular class in Yale history, “Psychology and the Good Life,” was held April 26 at the university’s largest venue, which school officials had to scramble to secure this winter when 1,200 undergraduates...
In the early 1990s, Yale researchers noticed that chronically depressed patients experienced almost immediate — if transitory — relief from symptoms after taking the pediatric anesthetic ketamine. Their subsequent research has shown that ketamine, which...
Soon after an individual’s initial infection with HIV, damage to brain volume and cortical thickness progressively worsens until anti-retroviral treatment is started, a new study shows.
“We knew HIV could cause neurological damage, but we did not know it...
Almost 1,000 investors, entrepreneurs, and scientists gathered May 9 at the Yale School of Management for the Yale Innovation Summit, one of the premier annual showcases for the university’s tech and biotech talent.
The summit, hosted by the Office of...
Humans have competitors in their ability to befoul the world’s waterways: Hippos clog Africa’s Mara River with tons of their oxygen-eating, fish-killing feces, a new Yale University-led study has shown.
Sections of the Mara River in East Africa provide...
Drug and alcohol abusers are more likely to complete treatment and use less drugs and alcohol, both within treatment and through a six-month follow-up if they use an online program teaching skills and strategies to control behavior rather than undergoing...
Yale scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience — the sense of connection to something greater than oneself.
Activity in the parietal cortex, an area of the brain involved in awareness of self and others as...