Two local chapters of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society-the Greater Connecticut Chapter and the Western Connecticut Chapter-jointly awarded a grant of nearly $50,000 to support the efforts of the Yale Multiple Sclerosis Clinic in providing expert...
Imaging studies of the brain when it is under the influence of alcohol reveal that different areas of the brain are impaired under high and low levels of alcohol, according to a Yale study published in Neuropsychopharmacology. Godfrey Pearlson and Vince...
Estrogen treatment had less beneficial effect on memory in female mice that raced on running wheels and played with other toys than in mice raised in non-stimulating environments, according to a Yale study published this month. “We saw no beneficial...
For people who say they never believe what they read in the newspapers, a Yale researcher found the reality is something different. In two studies published in the journal Psychological Science, Yale Ph.D. candidate Victoria Brescoll and Marianne...
A celebration marking two watershed events in the history of the discipline of psychology at Yale will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, September 3, 2004, with remarks from several officials, including Yale President Richard C. Levin. The convocation will be...
Yale mathematician Shizuo Kakutani, who invented a tool known as the Kakutani skyscraper that was used to organize random processes such as coin flipping, died this week in New Haven. He was 92. Kakutani, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at...
Yale researchers Stephen G. Waxman, M.D. and Jeffery D. Kocsis have received a $4.5 million grant from the Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Service to continue their internationally recognized research training program...
The ability to recognize persons encountered during highly threatening and stressful events is poor in the majority of individuals, according to a Yale researcher. “Contrary to the popular conception that most people would never forget the face of a...
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has observed the recently discovered distant solar system object named Sedna. HST observations were intended to look for a satellite orbiting Sedna and to yield a more precise size for the planetoid by resolving it....
John Rodgers, the Silliman Professor of Geology emeritus at Yale University who mapped the bedrock geology of the state of Connecticut, and who often said, “I collect mountain ranges,” died March 7 at his home in Hamden. He was 89. Rodgers’ love for the...