A review of long-term data of new antiepileptic drug (AED) use found that epilepsy patients refill their prescriptions for an average of six to eight months, according to results presented today by a Yale School of Medicine researcher at the American...
Researchers in the Department of Psychiatry and affiliated with Women’s Health Research at Yale will examine sex-specific factors in the association between stress and cocaine addiction with help from a new five-year, $5.8 million grant. The grant is...
Yale School of Medicine neurobiologists Pasko Rakic, M.D., the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor and Chair of Neurobiology and Patricia Goldman-Rakic, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurobiology, jointly received the distinguished Ralph W. Gerard Prize...
A small set of neurons responsible for keeping people alert have the ability to arouse each other, a finding that could have implications for those who work long or odd hours and have difficulty staying awake, a Yale researcher has found. Anthony van...
Yale School of Medicine researchers are testing a promising new treatment for women with recurrent ovarian cancer, which is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women in the United States, affecting one in 100 women. The women will be...
Cystic Fibrosis, a fatal lung disease striking one in 2,500 people, may be caused by a failure of the cilia to maintain the level of water associated with the mucus in the lungs, causing the natural mucus to thicken and become infected with bacteria,...