Silverman and Lebowitz recently received a generous gift to develop and test other interventions that help parents reduce other child anxiety-related behavioral and emotional difficulties, such as ...

New Trial Aims to Halt Parkinson’s Disease Before Its Onset: Yale's PRISMS study is investigating an anti-inflammatory drug in individuals with REM sleep behavior disorder to see if it prevents the ...

The research reported in this news article was supported by the National Institutes of Health (award R01HL75092) and Yale University. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does ...

Key points Trichotillomania (repeated hair-pulling) and excoriation disorder (repeated skin-picking) can run in families and aren’t just “bad habits.” A Yale study with 100+ families found that people ...

Researchers have conducted one of the most comprehensive studies, published recently in Nature Mental Health, on how the autistic brain processes faces. Some of the hallmark characteristics of autism ...

In the late 19th century, psychologists William James, MD, and Wilhelm Wundt, MD, staked out opposing theories of action awareness. James believed it comes after an action, through sensory feedback.

Key points 92% of websites prescribed GLP medications, and 69% mailed them, with little to no clinician oversight. Compounded GLPs are not regulated by the FDA, and are being mass-produced and ...

People often describe anesthesia as something that puts a patient in a “deep sleep.” An anesthesiologist enters the operating room, and part of their mission is to ensure that the patient is ...

For decades, the relationship between fat and cancer has been treated as a question of quantity: eat less fat, reduce your risk of developing cancer. New Yale research, published April 29 in Cancer ...

Older adults with type 2 diabetes face a difficult trade-off: they are among the most vulnerable to medication-related harms yet are often underrepresented in the clinical trials that guide treatment ...

How does social media affect the mental health of young people, and does more use always mean more harm? Several researchers are working to find out through four pilot studies funded by Yale Child ...

This test, if confirmed, could help doctors fast-track endometriosis patients who are resistant to progesterone-based birth control to more effective treatments, says Hugh Taylor, MD, chair and Anita ...