When people behave selfishly, they have a reliable ally to keep their self-image well-polished — their own memory.
When asked to recall how generous they were in the past, selfish people tend to remember being more benevolent than they actually were,...
Before people develop the more severe symptoms of COVID-19, some notice they have lost their sense of smell and taste. Researchers at Yale have joined a new global consortium to distribute a survey to establish how many COVID-19 patients experience this...
Teachers have long been familiar with the “summer slide” — or the loss of reading skills among kindergarteners through second graders during three months away from the classroom. Now researchers from Yale University and University of Connecticut under the...
Anxiety, fear and stress are the enemies of rational thought, which can be under siege during the current pandemic. Yale’s Amy Arnsten, the Albert E. Kent Professor of Neuroscience, professor of psychology and a member of the Kavli Institute of...
Healthcare workers and COVID-19 patients at Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) have begun receiving blood tests designed by Yale scientists to detect antibodies to the virus, yielding information researchers hope will answer important questions about the...
A drug used for cancer therapy has shown promise in reversing kidney damage caused by systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, or lupus), according to a Yale-led study published April 8 in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
“Kidney damage affects about...
From early prenatal development through childhood, the prefrontal cortex of the human brain undergoes an avalanche of developmental activity. In some cases, it also contains seeds of neuropsychiatric illnesses and conditions such as autism spectrum...
Colorectal cancer kills more than 50,000 people a year in the United States alone, but scientists have struggled to find the exact mechanisms that trigger the growth of tumors in the intestine.
Cancer researchers have zeroed in on a tightly sequestered...
Vaporized hydrogen peroxide may be able to disinfect respirator masks used by health care workers treating patients infected with COVID-19 virus, according to preliminary findings by Yale researchers.
Although researchers did not test for its ability to...
How much spring and summer affect the COVID-19 pandemic may depend not only on the effectiveness of social distancing measures, but also on the environment inside our buildings, according to a review by Yale scientists of their own work and that of...