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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.

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.

Over the years, researchers have identified many genes that are strongly associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but it remains unclear whether these “risk genes” are part of common biological pathways.

As pioneers in the field of 3D brain organoids, The Vaccarino lab has generated an extensive collection of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines derived from patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which could be essential for personalized medicine.

Have you noticed how the smell of delicious food has a very different impact on you whether you are hungry or full?