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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.

Novel applications of neuroscience tools have enabled researchers to uncover the neural controls of an extreme biological trait.

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

With a new school year comes a new cohort of Women’s Health Research at Yale Undergraduate Fellows.

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.

Two Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers and a scientist from the Yale Department of Neuroscience have been awarded Young Investigator Grants from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Terril L. Verplaetse, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry; Heather Snell, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience; and Zachary Harvanek, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are among 150 early career scientists worldwide honored with the award.

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