Focusing on how children learn and develop rather than on the delivery of information is critical in making schools successful, says James Comer, M.D., the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University Child Study Center. “We are now...
Measuring blood flow to the brain may be a useful way to determine when a recovering cocaine addict is able to benefit from cognitive behavior therapy as a treatment for cocaine addiction, a Yale researcher has found. Cocaine constricts coronary and...
Most women in underserved populations do not continue breastfeeding after four months because they lack the confidence they will do so, and they think their infants prefer formula, a study by Yale researchers shows. Of the 64 women who participated in...
The pin dot-sized deer ticks responsible for more than 100,000 cases of Lyme disease nationwide are now found to carry yet another new and infectious organism, a Yale researcher has found. “We report here, for the first time, the existence of a...
Dorothy Sexton, creator of the Yale School of Nursing’s (YSN) Medical-Surgical Nursing Program and leader in the development of the school’s doctoral program, will retire in May after 27 years. Sexton is known as an exemplary mentor and an accomplished...