Neuroscience News at Yale

On Friday, September 20th, the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale celebrated 20 years of research and innovation since its inception in 2004. Over 200 Yale faculty members, postdocs, staff, and students gathered at The Anlyan Center (TAC) for a day-long symposium to share their research and insights.

Godfrey Pearlson, MD, MA, professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience, is author of the new book “The Science of Weed: An Indispensable Guide to Cannabis.”

When a drink could mean death, it’s important to avoid the urge.

The Yale Center for the Science of Cannabis and Cannabinoids (YC-SCAN²) has announced grants over $600,000 to 14 Yale School of Medicine researchers for innovative projects to understand the impact of cannabis and cannabinoids on neurodevelopment and mental health.

Yale School of Medicine teams have received three grants totaling $18 million from Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP), a coordinated research initiative devoted to accelerating the pace of discovery and informing the path to a cure for Parkinson’s disease (PD) research.

Joy Hirsch, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry and professor of comparative medicine and of neuroscience, spoke to NPR about her 2021 study that examined disagreement during face-to-face dialogue.

Seven Yale School of Medicine faculty receive Yale Faculty Innovation Awards.

Better pain medications, known as Nav1.8 inhibitors, could be the first new drugs in decades for chronic pain conditions that don’t respond to existing treatments.

Using single-cell transcriptomics and proteomics, Yale researchers have created a detailed cell atlas of brains affected by Parkinson’s disease.