After completing residency training in psychiatry at McLean Hospital and Yale in 1987, he joined the Yale faculty. Since 1992, Nestler has served as director of the Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities and of the Division of Molecular Psychiatry. He serves on the board of scientific counselors of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and on the scientific advisory boards of the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression and of the National Alliance for Autism Research. The goal of Nestler's research is to better understand the ways in which the brain responds to repeated perturbations under normal and pathological conditions. This work is based on the view that a greater knowledge of the neurobiological basis of drug addiction will lead to more effective treatments and preventive measures.
Similar work is underway in the areas of depression, psychosis and stress.
Sally E. Shaywitz is co-director of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention and professor of pediatrics. A native New Yorker, Shaywitz was graduated with honors from the City University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received her M.D. degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. M.D. Sally Shaywitz has a special interest in how children learn, in the development of learning from early childhood through adulthood, and in the neurobiology of reading. Her research has examined learning, and particularly reading, from a broad perspective, including epidemiologic, cognitive, educational and neurobiological influences. Shaywitz is the principal investigator of the Connecticut Longitudinal Study, a prospective study of reading development based on a representative sample of school children followed since kindergarten.