In the early 1990s, Yale researchers noticed that chronically depressed patients experienced almost immediate — if transitory — relief from symptoms after taking the pediatric anesthetic ketamine. Their subsequent research has shown that ketamine, which...
Professor Laurie Santos’ final lecture of the most popular class in Yale history, “Psychology and the Good Life,” was held April 26 at the university’s largest venue, which school officials had to scramble to secure this winter when 1,200 undergraduates...
Scientists have identified several genes that when mutated can cause children to be born with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads. But exactly how these genes control brain size has remained unclear. A team of researchers headed by scientists at Yale...
Searching the entire genome, a Yale research team has identified a gene that when eliminated can spur regeneration of axons in nerve cells severed by spinal cord injury.
“For the first time, the limits on nerve fiber regeneration were studied in an...
Veterans with a history of homelessness are five times more likely to attempt suicide than other veterans, a new study by researchers at Yale and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs has found.
The authors argue in the study, published April 2 in the...