The third annual Regatta for Research: Racing for Women’s Health will be held in Essex October 30-31 to benefit Women’s Health Research at Yale. A kick off reception will be held in Fairfield on Thursday, October 28 from 5:30-8:00 P.M. at Lenox...
On November 10, the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., with the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, will host the second of a series of four lectures on 100 years of psychoanalysis by renowned author Elisabeth Young-Bruehl...
Brian W. Dippie, professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, will deliver the fourth annual Betts Lecture at the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale on November 5. The lecture, titled “ ‘Its...
On November 10, the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., with the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, will host the second of a series of four lectures on 100 years of psychoanalysis by renowned author Elisabeth Young-Bruehl...
Overactivity of protein kinase C (PKC), an enzyme that is implicated in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, markedly impairs higher brain functions in animals, according to a Yale study published Oct. 29 in Science. The research adds to mounting...
Designing physical activity programs and interventions geared to breast cancer survivors will increase well-being and may improve prognosis, Yale researchers report in a recent issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. “Despite the evidence...
Rita Dove, the first African-American poet to serve as the nation’s Poet Laureate, will read from her poetry on November 30, 4 p.m., at Yale’s Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and...
Yale School of Medicine has received a $1.7 million grant to study whether a history of use of MDMA (ecstasy) and marijuana is associated with cognitive deficits in adolescents. The study, which will include 200 adolescent participants, also will...
Mice engineered without the Nogo-66 Receptor (NgR) grew new nerve fibers after spinal cord injury, pointing to this receptor as a target for development of a drug to promote fiber recovery, according to a Yale study published today in Neuron. The...
Yale will present the C-E.A. Winslow Medal to William H. Foege, M.D., Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at the Emory School of Public Health, on October 28 at 4 p.m. in Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar St. Foege will...