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A united effort
When Abigail Greene and Daniel Barson were children growing up just north of New York City, they had no idea how intertwined their lives would become. Given their shared interests, their related futures are not surprising.
28 Sep 2020
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Fixing dysregulated pathways
The human brain represents one of the last frontiers of medical research. Inaccessible due to physiological, practical, and ethical barriers, the brain has defied attempts to probe or understand it even while other organs have been mapped and analyzed.
5 Jul 2020
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Sleep: memory's careful custodian
Anyone who’s had a poor night’s rest can attest that lack of sleep impairs cognition, especially memory. But researchers don’t really know why, and unknowns like these complicate the scientific understanding of memory-related conditions like Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other types of dementia,..
5 Jul 2020
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The failing brain
As global life expectancy inches upward, neurons may struggle to keep up. Unlike other cells in the body, which experience fairly regular turnaround, neurons are largely irreplaceable—and therefore most must function optimally for nearly a century.
5 Jul 2020
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Regenerating what cannot be replaced
The 65th anniversary of the day the world learned the polio vaccine is safe and effective occurred on April 12, 2020, amid another global infectious disease outbreak. As it happens, intensive care medicine of the kind now saving COVID-19 patients’ lives has roots in the pre-1950s polio epidemics.
5 Jul 2020
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Slaying the stress monster
Though stress and its surrogates—anxiety, trauma, and despair—are ubiquitous, their root causes have long been subjected to debate. They’re often categorized as ailments over which a disciplined individual has some conscious control; however, more recent research has challenged this assumption.
5 Jul 2020
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The mind/body divide
Research associated with neuroscience has long been a strength for Yale School of Medicine. This issue explores some of the questions currently animating the field, by looking at ongoing projects.
5 Jul 2020
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A serendipitous path to Yale
“In surgery we have a saying: It’s better to be lucky than good,” said Veronica Chiang, MD, HS ’00. Clearly, however, as director of the Yale Gamma Knife Center, professor of neurosurgery, and a 2019 recipient of the Yale Cancer Center Award for Excellence in Clinical Care, Chiang exhibits..
5 Jul 2020
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Making the mind run smoothly
Charles Matouk, MD, associate professor of neurosurgery and of radiology & biomedical imaging, and chief of neurovascular surgery at Yale Medicine, still marvels at an advance in stroke treatment that he now employs numerous times a month. The procedure—mechanical thrombectomy—became a..
5 Jul 2020
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Ahead of the curve
What makes Yale and YSM so strong and unique in Neuroscience? First is our depth of excellence. This extends far beyond the Department of Neuroscience.
5 Jul 2020
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Understanding the brain’s resilience
As a teenager, Amy Arnsten, PhD, the Albert E. Kent Professor of Neuroscience and professor of psychology, watched her father slowly recover from a massive heart attack.
5 Jul 2020
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Studying autoimmunity
Throughout his career at Yale, Joseph E. Craft, MD, HS ’80, FW ’85, has studied autoimmunity, specifically systemic lupus erythematosus.
17 Apr 2020
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Researching a clinical mystery
When Daniel Wong was overcome by seizures that struck out of the blue only two months after he graduated from Stanford in 2013, his doctors were alarmed. They could find no triggering event, no history of epilepsy, no explanation for his sudden prolonged seizures.
17 Apr 2020
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Inflammation: part hero, part villain
For many years, inflammation was considered one of medicine’s chief enemies. Experts viewed it as a side effect of illness and injury, a negative byproduct of the body’s efforts to heal.
17 Apr 2020
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Anosmia: COVID-19's mysterious side effect
About a third of patients confirmed to have COVID-19 report a temporary loss of smell. Yale specialists describe why that might happen, and what can be done.
6 Jan 2020
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A perfect day for zebrafish
On a warm sunny morning last September, eight 4- and 5-year-olds in Phyllis Bodel Childcare Center’s kindergarten class on the campus of Yale School of Medicine (YSM) sat outside at picnic tables with their eyes glued skyward. In the middle of the courtyard in front of them a large crane was..
1 Jul 2019
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Treating childhood autism one robot at a time
Parents can be resistant to hearing that their child faces a challenging health diagnosis. But when Thomas Leaf and Emanuela Palmares learned that their son Caio had autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the diagnosis answered many questions with which they’d been grappling as parents and as..
1 Jul 2019
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Minimizing blood vessel blockage
All cardiac procedures carry a risk of stroke because plaque or calcium buildup can break off in small pieces, float up into the brain, and block narrow blood vessels. A highly specialized tool called an embolic protection device is currently used to prevent some of the released debris from..
1 Jul 2019
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Blended or augmented reality arrives in the classroom
Virtual, augmented, and blended reality have clinical applications for treatment of the visually impaired. Now, those applications are making their way into the classroom at YSM.
24 Apr 2019
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How Yale is confronting the national mental health crisis
Health care leaders say that the United States of America is experiencing a mental health crisis; mental-illness-related deaths amount to the fifth-leading cause of mortality among Americans. Faculty and students at Yale School of Medicine look for answers.
24 Apr 2019