Pasko Rakic MD, PhD
Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology; Department Chair, Neurobiology; Director, Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): NeuroscienceInterdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Neurobiology: Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
Neurology
Research Interests
Central nervous system development
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Education
- M.D., Belgrade University , 1959
- Ph.D., Belgrade University , 1969
Selected Publication
- Liu X, Hashimoto-Torii K, Torii M, Ding C, Rakic P. (2010) Gap junctions/hemichannels modulate interkinetic nuclear migration in the forebrain precursors J Neurosci. 30: 4197-209
Articles
Summer 2004
New institute to explore cortex
The Kavli Foundation of Oxnard, Calif., has endowed the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale University to pursue...
Spring 2000
IOM honors two from Yale
The Institute of Medicine has honored two from Yale with senior membership. Pasko Rakic, M.D., Sc.D., the Dorys...
Autumn 2008
Kavli Prize for a Yale neuroscientist
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., chair and the Doris McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology, professor of neurology and...
Winter 2002
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D.
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., chair of genetics, professor of genetics, medicine and molecular biophysics and...
Winter 2003
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D.
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., chair and professor of neurobiology and the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience,...
Spring 2003
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D.
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of neuroscience and chair of neurobiology, and Patricia...
Autumn 2001
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Section of Neurobiology and the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of...
Winter/Spring 1998
Pasko Rakic, M.D.
Pasko Rakic, M.D., chairman and Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology, was honored during the meeting with...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
The mouse that roared
Once the stuff of myth and science fiction, the transgenic mouse, first created at Yale, has conquered the world of...
Winter 2007
An early start for the thinking brain
The cerebral cortex, a layer of cells just a few millimeters thick on the outermost surface of the brain, is largely...
Spring 2002
A lively debate about brain's capacity for renewal
Neurogenesis, an arcane and complex issue, has leaped out of scientific journals and conferences in the last few years...
Winter 2002
Crossing over
Two Yale neuroscientists have discovered a pathway, apparently unique to humans, that guides neurons between different...
Fall 1998
A new strategy for stroke and Alzheimer’s?
Researchers at the School of Medicine have found that blocking an enzyme known to be involved in cell death could help...
