Neuroscience News at Yale

Marina Picciotto, PhD, Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center, of Neuroscience and of Pharmacology, spoke to News 12 Connecticut about her research into nicotine addiction. Picciotto is affiliated with the Yale Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS).

While current microscopy techniques image only a few intracellular molecules at a time, a new technique developed by Yale scientists can help researchers visualize the entire subcellular ecosystem.

Yale researchers propose that brain states and brain waves may be two parts of the same occurrence — and they discuss why that matters.

A collection of recent studies from YSM

The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research has released its medical school rankings for total NIH funding. Yale School of Medicine‘s ranking rose to fourth from the seventh spot.

The newly announced election brings the number of AAP members from Yale to 53.

Jess Cardin, PhD, associate professor and Deputy Chair of Neuroscience, was featured in "NeURoscience Perspectives", an interview series led by John Foxe, PhD, director of the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester.

Yale researchers Dibyadeep Datta, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Amy Arnsten, PhD, Albert E. Kent Professor of Neuroscience and professor of psychology, led a study that probed a blood biomarker for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. The findings were published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.

A new study led by the newly recruited Yale Neuroscience assistant professor Aaron Kuan reveals how structure and function come together in brain circuits to support decision-making.