A Yale School of Medicine surgeon who is developing techniques to growing replacement blood vessels from a patient’s own cells is recipient of a five-year grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute.The $625,000 grant to Christopher Breuer, M.D...
David McCormick New Haven, Conn. — Contrary to popular belief, brain cells use a mix of analog and digital coding at the same time to communicate efficiently, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers published this...
Joel Gelernter, M.D. Based on data obtained from one of the largest family sets of its kind, Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified a genetic linkage for dependence on drugs such as heroin, morphine and oxycontin.The lead...
Thomas Kirk, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, will receive the first Research Advocacy Award from the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine on Saturday, April 8.The award recognizes Kirk’s...
The inaugural Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., Lecture will be held at Yale School of Medicine May 15 in honor of Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., professor emeritus at Yale who is widely acknowledged as one of the founders of neurology.The Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., Fund...
Marvin Chun and team The way the brain stores new, conscious information such as a first kiss or a childhood home is strongly linked to the way the human brain stores unconscious information, researchers at Yale report this month in an...
Christy Marshuetz One of two separate areas of the brain light up when younger people look at a house or a face, but each image activates both areas of the brain at the same time in older persons, according to a study published by Yale...
Researchers at Yale have established the minimal nutritional requirements for growing and maintaining human embryonic stem cells, a recipe that is critical for clinical application and for developmental studies, according to an early online report this...
The drug naltrexone might help reduce weight gain in smokers as they try to quit, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine.The researchers found that smokers who took a 25 mg dose...
A single pain receptor is responsible for the kick delivered by garlic and mustard oil, which is the active ingredient in mustard and in the pungent green sushi condiment known as wasabi, according to a Yale School of Medicine study published this week in...