Researchers at Yale and Rockefeller Universities have found that an enzyme called Cdk5 regulates the action of dopamine, a chemical messenger associated with cocaine’s “rush” and with addiction to cocaine and other drugs. According to Jingshan Chen,...
State-of-the art lectures and presentations by distinguished speakers from both sides of the Atlantic will highlight a meeting between The Royal College of Surgeons of England and Yale Department of Surgery on March 14. The colloquium, which will take...
A Yale research team, in collaboration with scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine, have studied signal transduction-the communication system developed by cells-to further understand how hereditary blindness occurs. “Our results serve as a basis...
Research at Yale looking at the causes and treatment of auditory hallucinations or “voices” will continue with over $600,000 in combined funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Donaghue Foundation and the Charles A. Dana...
In honor of his pioneering work in cancer pharmacology and research pertaining to drug development, Alan C. Sartorelli, The Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine, will receive the 14th Bruce F. Cain Memorial Award from the...
Eight-year-old Hiam, a Palestinian girl who lost an eye after being shot in Gaza, is receiving a prosthetic eye work-up with help from the Yale Eye Center and Mazin Qumsiyeh, associate professor of genetics at Yale School of Medicine. According to...
Joan Steitz, the Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, is one of five recipients of the “For Women in Science Program” award from L’Oreal Beauty Company and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...
Using an innovative method called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to measure brain responsiveness, Yale researchers have found that a cocaine addict’s response to stimulation is decreased, indicating possible evidence that cocaine causes...
When VA hospitals cut inpatient psychiatric care, there is no overall reduction in effective care and clinical outcomes for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients, Yale researchers report in the February issue of 15 Medical Care. “We found no...
A homeless psychiatric patient’s race and the race of his or her case managers has no effect on the quality of mental health services the patients receive, or on their clinical outcomes, Yale researcher Robert Rosenheck, M.D. reports in a recent study...