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The Center for Neuroethology and Physiological Plasticity will coordinate research on how behaviors and senses arise and differ across species.

A new study identifies two types of neurons in the heart that are essential for survival.

Mutations in VPS13 proteins are associated with neurodegenerative conditions like Parkinson’s disease. New findings could point to therapeutic avenues.

A new study uncovers the structure of a toxic form of amyloid beta driving brain damage associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

The Center for Brain & Mind Health Pilot Program is the center's annual keystone initiative, embodying its core value of interdisciplinary collaboration as a driver of clinically relevant neuroscience.

Senior author Dr. Stephen Strittmatter, chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine, said drugs targeting one of the newly identified proteins could be a realistic prospect.

A subset of cardiac neurons keep the heart from malfunctioning in stressed mice.

A Yale study reveals, for the first time, the brain signals that determine whether we're conscious of our own actions—and what happens when those signals break down.

Emilia Favuzzi, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute, won the Klingenstein Fellowship Award in Neuroscience, presented by Klingenstein Philanthropies to support early career investigators engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders.