Neuroscience News at Yale

Creating zygotes from the genetic material and cytoplasm of two mouse species yields offspring that differ drastically from their parents, a new study shows.

Too much stuff in the periphery of our vision can make it difficult to identify what we’re seeing. Yale researchers now know how that clutter affects the brain.

The new Yale center is the first to focus on developing precision medicine for Parkinson’s disease.

The Katz Lab in the Department of Pathology was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to study the role of a protein called BOK in cell death of neurons.

A new Yale Neuroscience study sheds light on how the use of alternative translation initiation sites produces multiple synaptic protein isoforms with diverse localization and functions.

The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Elizabeth A. Jonas, MD, of Yale University School of Medicine, has been named the recipient of the 2025 BPS Award in the Biophysics of Health and Disease. Jonas will be honored at the Society’s 69th Annual Meeting, being held in Los Angeles, California from February 15-19, 2025.

During her postdoctoral training in the Before and After Baby Lab in the Child Study Center, Tal Yatziv worked on the mechanisms of adaptive caregiving, assessing parents' biases in processing infant affective facial expressions.

Clíona Kelly is a cognitive neuroscientist who pioneered the combination of electroencephalography (EEG) with virtual reality to observe oscillatory changes in a dynamic and naturalistic environment.

Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, is featured on Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists, a grassroots effort developed to showcase the expertise, talents, and diversity of Hispanic and Latinx scientific faculty.