Yale School of Medicine has received $6.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to study why the olfactory function declines as people age—research that could have implications for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurodegenerative diseases....
Members of the media are welcome to attend and cover the Veterans Day commemoration at Yale on November 11, beginning at 8 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets.The event features a concert by the U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers’...
The amygdala is a central processing station in the brain for emotions, but Yale researchers report that the amygdala also plays a role in working memory, a higher cognitive function critical for reasoning and problem solving...
Heart attack patients who also have another acute condition such as stroke, kidney failure and pneumonia may have a poorer outcome than those without these conditions, and those with the most severe conditions account for a disproportionate percentage of...
A detailed study of 520 patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) and dissection indicates a very strong genetic link, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.“All immediate family of patients with aneurysms of any...
Acute lung injury caused by cell death, high and potentially toxic concentrations of oxygen (hyperoxia), and the resulting excess fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema), may be controlled by modulating levels of the angiopoietin2 (Ang2) protein, researchers...
Yale will help set the stage, November 13–15, for an event a recent New Yorker article described as “the largest theatre collaboration ever”: Suzan Lori Parks’s ambitious “365 Days/365 Plays.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright has written a play for...
James C. Tsai, M.D. James C. Tsai, M.D., M.B.A., an authority on glaucoma, has been named chair of the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science. As chair, Tsai will be...
Ohio State University professor David Huron, a noted scholar on the physiological and psychological response to music, will deliver four lectures at Yale to answer a question that has long intrigued poets, scientists and philosophers: “What is it about...