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Stroke survivors face an increased risk of suffering a second stroke and developing cognitive disabilities as a result. Evidence indicates that hypertension plays a significant role in this comorbidity, and yet, only 60% of stroke survivors have their blood pressure under control. A Yale-led study studies the link between elevated genetic predisposition to hypertension and more-difficult-to-control blood pressure.
- December 09, 2022
The clinical trials the network performs reflect the fact that emergency medicine is an area of health care unlike any other, because of the high stakes and time pressures involved for patients in sudden need of emergent treatment.
- August 30, 2022
The center will foster transformational work that bridges existing departments, levels of analysis, and disciplinary boundaries, and will focus on areas of clinical and translational neuroscience that are broader than any single disease.
- June 22, 2022Source: National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program
Julian Acosta, MD, Guido Falcone, MD and MD/MHS Student Audrey Leasure study the correlation between cardiovascular disease prevalence and populations underrepresented in medicine by using the All of Us dataset.
- May 19, 2022
Student Research Day honors YSM’s MD students for their research and—with the creation last year of this unique mentorship prize—pays tribute to the faculty mentors who support them.
- May 05, 2022
During the 2022 European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) held from May 4-6, Natalia Szejko, MD, PhD a postdoctoral fellow in the Falcone Lab was awarded the ESOC Young Research Investigator Award in Stroke for her submitted abstract, “Epigenetic Age and Ischemic Stroke: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study.”
- May 02, 2022
The collaboration that advanced the discovery of ketamine as a treatment for depression was among four Yale award winners at the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) annual meeting held in Chicago from April 20 through 22.
- April 21, 2022Source: YaleNews
“This is the first systematic evidence you can detect ischemic strokes using portable, bedside devices,” said Kevin Sheth, a professor of neurology and neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine and co-corresponding author of the study.
- April 06, 2022
The American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology (ABCN) has invited associate professor Emily Gilmore, MD, to serve as board member, effective immediately. Dr. Gilmore will play a significant role in the ABCN examination development, including writing and editing questions.
- February 10, 2022
Julian Acosta, MD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Falcone Lab in Yale's Department of Neurology, has won the Mordecai Y.T. Globus New Investigator Award for research which demonstrates how a poor combination of genomic risk factors correlates with more and larger silent strokes, even in people who do not display symptoms of neurological disease.