Neuroscience News at Yale

Janitza L. Montalvo-Ortiz, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been awarded a grant by the Yale-USP Strategic Partnership Initiative for the project “Advancing Multi-Ancestry Psychiatric Genomics in Latin America: A Yale-USP Collaborative Initiative through the Latin American Genomics Consortium."

John H. Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and professor of psychiatry, of neuroscience, and of psychology, and chair of the Yale Department of Psychiatry, was awarded the 2026 Connecticut Medal of Technology at a ceremony September 17 in East Hartford.

Yale researchers are improving the treatment of childhood anxiety by investigating all aspects of the disorder, down to the molecular level.

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) was awarded a grant of nearly $25 million by the Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) initiative. The award, which is part of ARIA's Human Developmental Neurobiology Research Hub, is focused on building foundational maps and models of the developing human brain and to clarify how and when autism diverges from typical development.

A Yale School of Medicine-built platform uncovers genes associated with dysfunctional molecular clusters in cells—and drug candidates to prevent them.

Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, will give the 2026 Kavli Distinguished Lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 22, titled "Neuron-Glial Interactions in Health and Disease: from Cognition to Cancer."

In a new study, Yale researchers identified an unexpected mechanism that challenges a long-held assumption about the brain’s hunger circuitry.

The Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcohol (CTNA) at Yale School of Medicine has been awarded a grant by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to continue its research for five more years.

The 2026 SYNAPSES (Symposia at Yale Neuroscience: Advanced PoStdoc Extramural Series) Symposium will be held on October 22, 2026. SYNAPSES brings postdocs from around the world to Yale to share their latest work.