Heart patients are particularly vulnerable to depression and should be screened, and if necessary treated, to improve their recovery and overall health, according to a scientific advisory issued Monday by the American Heart Association and co-authored by...
Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have found that two-year-olds with autism looked significantly more at the mouths of others, and less at their eyes, than typically developing toddlers. This abnormality predicts the level of disability, according to...
Jane R. Taylor, who has recently been designated as the Charles B.G. Murphy Associate Professor of Psychiatry, specializes in brain research related to drug addiction and various psychiatric disorders.Her laboratory focuses on the dysfunction of cortico-...
Jacquelyn Taylor, assistant professor at Yale School of Nursing, was one of 15 junior faculty in the nation to receive an inaugural Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar award.The goal of the new program is to develop the next generation of...
Patients may receive poor or delayed care after sign-out—the transfer of a patient from one doctor to another during a shift change—Yale School of Medicine researchers report in an Archives of Internal Medicine study “We spend a great deal of time in...
In a dramatic illustration of the potential for microbes to prevent disease, researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago showed that mice exposed to common stomach bacteria were protected against the development of Type I diabetes. The...
Yale researchers have shown that the origin and evolution of the placenta and uterus in mammals is associated with evolutionary changes in a single regulatory protein, according to a report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Many past...
Dr. Michael J. Caplan, newly designated as the C.N.H. Long Professor of Physiology, is renowned for his research on the sorting and function of ion proteins in polarized epithelial cells.His laboratory team focuses on identifying the proteins that...
Marina R. Picciotto, recently appointed as the Charles B.G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry, specializes in the areas of molecular neuroscience, behavioral pharmacy, mouse genetics and translational neuroscience.The goal of her research is to understand...
The bonds that tie a mother to her newborn may be stronger in women who deliver naturally than in those who deliver by cesarean section, according to a study published by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the October issue of Journal of Child...