The Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry is offering 12 weeks of free cognitive behavioral therapy for major depression as part of a study to measure possible changes in brain chemistry associated with treatment. The neurotransmitter GABA...
The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) has awarded 13 grants totaling close to $780,000 to Yale School of Medicine psychiatric researchers. Yale received the second largest number of awards this year out of all...
When “rogue” proteins begin wreaking havoc within cells, the result is diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. Scientists at Yale University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at California...
Franz Rosenthal, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Arabic at Yale University, died on April 8 in Branford, CT., after a long illness. “Franz Rosenthal was a man of total intellectual integrity, a renowned interpreter of Islamic religion and Arabic...
Charles Alderson Janeway, Jr., M.D., professor of immunobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator died on April 12 at age 60 in New Haven after a long illness. Janeway was one of the leading...
NAFSA: Association of International Educators has recognized Yale University as having one of the nation’s most outstanding initiatives in campus internationalization. In its report released today, Internationalizing the Campus 2003: Profiles of Success...
A molecule that destroys blood vessels in tumors also is effective against blood vessels associated with macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness after age 55, according to a collaborative study by scientists at Yale University and the...
A study by Yale researchers suggests that the atypical antipsychotic drug risperidone reduces tic symptoms in children and adults with Tourette syndrome (TS). “These results suggest that risperidone is safe and effective for short-term treatment of tics...
As part of an ongoing series sponsored by the Yale English department, celebrated author Stephen King will give a public reading from his forthcoming work “Wolves of the Calla” on April 21, at 8 p.m., in Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School, 127 Wall St...
A debate sponsored by two student organizations, panel discussions about America’s foreign policy and the prospects for nation building, and a student dialogue will round out the series of Yale Teach-ins related to the war in Iraq initiated by Yale...