Yale scientists and colleagues at Boston University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut have discovered genetic variants that increase the risk of paranoia in cocaine addicts and also seem to affect risk for cocaine dependence itself,...
In a study that gives insight into the depth of stigmatization against overweight and obese people, a Yale University-led team of researchers found weight bias even among those studying to be dieticians. The research appears in the March issue of the...
A popular smoking cessation drug dramatically reduced the amount a heavy drinker will consume, a new Yale School of Medicine study has found. Heavy-drinking smokers in a laboratory setting were much less likely to drink after taking the drug varenicline...
The helpless behavior that is commonly linked to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is preceded by stress-related losses of synapses—microscopic connections between brain cells—in the brain’s hippocampal region, researchers at Yale...
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a research and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, has issued a report reaffirming the “Code of the Street” theory of urban violence developed by Yale professor Elijah Anderson.This validation...
President Richard C. Levin will lead a Yale University contingent to the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change at the University of Copenhagen on March 10-12, 2009.Sustainability Director Julie Newman, faculty members William Nordhaus, Mark...
The Yale College term bill for the 2009–10 academic year will be $47,500, an increase of 3.3 percent over the current charges for tuition, room and board.Yale also affirmed that it will sustain its recent initiatives on affordability. In 2008, Yale...
When NASA’s Kepler spacecraft blasts into space on March 6, thousands of scientists around the globe will get one step closer to finding out just how unique Earth — and possibly life — really is.The robotic probe will spend the next three-and-a-half years...
Some people love gold; others are crazy about platinum. For Ann Valentine, it’s titanium. As a young scientist, she heard about a certain type of sea squirts - soft, tubular-shaped marine creatures that attach themselves to rocks and coral - that filters...
President Richard C. Levin has appointed the distinguished evolutionary biologist Sir Peter Crane as dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The John and Marion Sullivan University Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences...