Neuroscience News at Yale
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.
- November 07, 2024
Using single-cell transcriptomics and proteomics, Yale researchers have created a detailed cell atlas of brains affected by Parkinson’s disease.
- October 29, 2024Source: National Public Radio
The life expectancy in the United States is dropping faster than any other developed demographic in the world, and researchers like Rajita Sinha, PhD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and professor in the Child Study Center and of neuroscience, believe a leading culprit is mismanaged stress. Sinha directs the Yale Stress Center.
- October 23, 2024Source: Yale News
Creating zygotes from the genetic material and cytoplasm of two mouse species yields offspring that differ drastically from their parents, a new study shows.
- October 22, 2024Source: Yale News
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.
- October 14, 2024
The new Yale center is the first to focus on developing precision medicine for Parkinson’s disease.
- October 02, 2024
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.
- September 25, 2024
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.
- September 24, 2024Source: Biophysical Society
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.
- September 20, 2024
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.