Last spring, Kishwar Rizvi, professor of the history of art, led a group of eight graduate students to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of her seminar “Museum and Nation.” Rizvi’s students conducted fieldwork there and later hosted a symposium on...
Yale researchers have identified a drinkable cocktail of designer molecules that interferes with a crucial first step of Alzheimer’s and even restores memories in mice, they report Jan. 2 in the journal Cell Reports.
The binding of amyloid beta peptides...
Yale senior Fernando Rojas, a candidate for the B.A./M.A. program in history, is the subject of a new video produced by Yale’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions. The video showcases Rojas and his parents discussing the hard work, perseverance, and faith...
In response to the rapidly escalating opioid crisis, the Yale University Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) joined forces with Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) to expand Project ASSERT (Alcohol & Substance Abuse Services, Education, &...
By measuring the strength of connections between different brain networks, Yale researchers successfully predicted who would abstain from cocaine during treatment, they report Jan. 4 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
The machine-learning technique...
One of four patients admitted to hospitals for evaluation of seizures don’t have epilepsy but rather have a debilitating and difficult to diagnose condition known as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, or PNES.
Nearly 80 percent of these patients who...
Taking prescribed opioids raises the risk of pneumonia in individuals with and without HIV, a new Yale-led study finds.
The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, reinforces the concern that prescription opioid painkillers have a negative impact on...
Zoologist Katharine Jeannette Bush published a scholarly article in 1899 “based on a small, but very interesting, collection of gastropods belonging to the genus Turbonilla” that a “Mr. Pilsbry” had loaned to her for study.
Bush, a protégé of the renowned...
