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This week at Yale School of Medicine (YSM): How the claustrum in the brain helps us prepare for uncertainties; researchers identify patterns of brain activity associated with learning while resting; new approach could help overcome shortages of the HPV vaccine.
- October 05, 2026
A YSM team has identified patterns of brain activity associated with insight-like, at-rest learning in a recent study published in Nature Communications.
- February 04, 2026Source: Yale Alumni Magazine
How do we learn? How do we make sense of the changing world? These are the elemental questions that George Dragoi, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience is trying to answer.
- October 03, 2025
A new Yale study reveals the brain's internal map doesn't just track one’s current location, it constantly "flickers" between the present space and remembered alternatives.
- September 06, 2025Source: Nature Communications
Yuchen Zhou, PhD, and George Dragoi, MD, PhD, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in Nature Communications titled, "Generative Emergence of Non-Local Representations in the Hippocampus."
- April 10, 2025Source: Scientific Sense Podcast
George Dragoi, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience, was a guest on the Scientific Sense podcast, where he discussed his research into memory formation and spatial navigation.
- September 30, 2024Source: Nature Communications
Usman Farooq, PhD, postdoctoral associate, and George Dragoi, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience, are first and senior authors, respectively, of a new paper in Nature Communications.
- August 14, 2024Source: Yale News
In a new study, Yale researchers uncover how the brain, during sleep, replays and bundles many of the experiences that occur in our waking hours.
- August 12, 2024Source: Medical Xpress
George Dragoi, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience, is senior author of a paper in Nature Neuroscience that pinpoints some of the processes that allow the brain to process numerous experiences during sleep.
- January 11, 2024Source: Yale News
Based on years of research, Yale’s George Dragoi argues that our brains develop a cellular template soon after birth that defines how we perceive the world.