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Advancements in Women’s Health Research
For more than 25 years, innovative research on health conditions specifically affecting women, more prevalent in women, or affecting women differently than men has been at the core of Women’s Health Research at Yale.
23 Jul 2024
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Spring 2024 postgraduate associate travel award recipients announced
The results of the Yale Child Study Center Spring 2024 round of awards for the department’s postgraduate travel award have been announced. The award offers $500 toward travel expenses for YCSC postgraduate associates attending national or international scientific conferences.
12 Apr 2024
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Welcoming new YCSC community members: July 2023
In addition to new clinical trainees and undergraduate summer interns, the Yale Child Study Center welcomes several research trainees each summer. This year, two returning community members were also welcomed back to the department along with several new outstanding research trainees. Learn more about these new additions to the department.
14 Jul 2023
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Spring 2023 postgraduate travel awardees announced
The results of the Yale Child Study Center Spring 2023 round of awards for the department’s postgraduate travel award were announced on May 22. The award which offers $500 toward travel expenses for postgraduate associates attending national or international scientific conferences.
24 May 2023
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25 Years of Women’s Health Research at Yale
For the past 25 years, Women's Health Research at Yale has been investigating conditions of high morbidity and mortality in women and understanding sex and gender differences that affect health outcomes.
22 Mar 2023
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Yale Child Study Center Recognizes Long-term Service of Faculty & Staff
Yale Child Study Center (YCSC) community members came together via zoom on June 29, 2022 to continue the Center’s tradition of honoring long-term service to the University.
30 Jun 2022
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How Your Help Can Fund the Next Discovery in Women's Health Research
If the challenges of the past year have taught us anything, it is that we must continue working to understand all that we can about health and disease. And when it comes to sex and gender, we should not wait for the next crisis before addressing these critical components of our health.
21 Jun 2021
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Dvornek's Machine Learning Approaches Earn Top Prizes at International Conference
Nicha Dvornek, PhD, used multi-task learning to design a novel recurrent neural network-based model that learned to discriminate between data classes.
20 Nov 2019
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Better Science, Better Lives: Women's Health Research at Yale is Working for You
Across the country, it’s becoming clearer every day: We must study the health of women. We must study the influence of sex-and-gender differences on health. And it’s time for all aspects of medical research and practice to embrace this change.
17 Jun 2019
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Better Science, Better Lives for Women and Men: Q&A with Carolyn Mazure
WHRY Director Carolyn M. Mazure discusses how we are at a critical point, and the scientific community needs to decide if it will embrace true transformational change in science.
Source: YaleNews
6 Jun 2019
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Behavioral disorders in kids with autism linked to reduced brain connectivity
More than a quarter of children with autism spectrum disorder are also diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorders. For the first time, Yale researchers have identified a possible biological cause: a key mechanism that regulates emotion functions differently in the brains of the children who exhibit disruptive behavior.
18 Apr 2019
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Women’s Health Research at Yale
When Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY) was organized 20 years ago, women were not regularly studied and there was limited understanding of how sex and gender differences affected health outcomes. That’s changed in a big way.
14 May 2018
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Twenty years and counting for Women’s Health Research at Yale
BRCA2, a gene associated with increased risks of breast cancer, can be mutated in thousands of ways—but only some of those mutations are dangerous. The key question for oncologists, genetic counselors, and women with breast cancer is: which ones?Ryan B.
25 Dec 2017
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Twenty years and counting for Women's Health Research at Yale
Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY), a self-supporting center within Yale School of Medicine, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in February. With data developed through $5 million in WHRY grants to date, Yale scientists have gone on to secure $95 million in external grants to further their research into women’s health.
Source: Medicine@Yale
20 Dec 2017
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A catastrophe in the brain
Dylan started life as a typical baby, meeting his milestones for walking, talking, and other markers of normal development. In a home video from when Dylan was about 3, he climbs, bursting with energy, on the couch and pretends to read aloud from a picture book.
25 Oct 2017
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First Study Predicting Treatment Outcome in Children with Autism On IACC's Most Impactful List
A study led by the Ventola Lab in the Yale Child Study Center has been recognized as one of the top twenty most impactful studies of 2016 by the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) at the IACC Meeting on April 26th in Bethsada, MD.
4 May 2017
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Solving the Puzzle of Girls with Autism
Dr. Pamela Ventola's WHRY-sponsored study has shown for the first time that a treatment to help children with autism become more socially engaged works better in girls than boys.
31 Mar 2017
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Yale researchers find key to predicting outcomes of autism treatment
Yale University researchers report they can predict whether a preschool age child will respond to at least one form of treatment by looking at patterns of the child’s brain activity.
14 Nov 2016
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Yale Study: Monitoring Brain Activity Key To Autism Treatment, Outcomes
Observing the brain activity of preschool children with autism can help predict their response to treatment for the disorder, according to a study by Yale University researchers.
Source: Hartford Courant
14 Nov 2016
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Women’s Health Research at Yale to Fund Four New Studies
With seed money through this year’s Pilot Project Program – including the second-ever Naratil Pioneer Award recipient for research on the verge of a significant breakthrough – the researchers aim to answer questions vital to improving women’s health.
2 Jun 2015