When the brain has trouble filtering incoming information and predicting what’s likely to happen, psychosis can result, Stanford Medicine-led research shows.
Karl Deisseroth created a multidisciplinary in-patient research program and laboratory to better understand neuropsychiatric disorders and share those discoveries with the world.
Individually they look like they’re bumbling around without a plan; collectively they accomplish something pretty complex. Here’s what ants can teach us about neurons in the human brain.
Researchers discovered a surprising connection between brain cells that produce insulation around nerve fibers, sleep patterns, and neurodegenerative disease.
The bioengineer and psychiatrist discusses the transformational research techniques that shape our understanding of the brain on this episode of The Future of Everything.
Researchers at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute have identified how the axon and dendrite are maintained as separate compartments, which could shed light on disease mechanisms.
Stanford researchers are working with local school districts to transform a pandemic workaround into a highly efficient tool for screening students with reading difficulties.
Katrin Andreasson, professor of neurology and neurological sciences, talks about the role the aging immune system plays in the development of age-related brain diseases.
In a double-blind controlled study, high doses of magnetic brain stimulation, given on an accelerated timeline and individually targeted, caused remission in 79 percent of trial participants with severe depression.
In the past few decades, researchers have devised new ways to manipulate the brain and central nervous system to prevent – or even reverse – dementia, paralysis and blindness.
While analyzing data from the Department of Veterans Affairs, neurosurgery professor Odette Harris found a big gender difference in the aftermath of traumatic brain injuries.
Neuroscientists have discovered how the brain forms memories of new acquaintances, and that targeted drugs can strengthen or dampen these memories in mice.
Graduate student and game designer Kathryn Hymes joined speech pathologists, fellow designers and people with aphasia – a disorder affecting communication – to develop three games that support language recovery and social engagement.
A team of neuroscientists and engineers have developed a system that can show the neural process of decision making in real time, including the mental process of flipping between options before expressing a final choice.
Stanford researchers studied five- to eight-month-old babies and found that caregivers’ speech is associated with activation in brain regions that are involved in language comprehension.
Stanford researchers are connecting the dots between attention and memory to explain why we remember certain things and forget others, why some people remember better than others and how media multitasking affects how well we recall.
The researchers identified specific patterns of brain activation that protect adolescents from experiencing COVID-19-related anxiety and depression. The safeguard even extended to teens who experienced early puberty and are more likely to suffer psychological distress.
Removing memories associated with morphine use from the brains of mice enables Stanford researchers to prevent relapse and could point to a new approach for treating the opioid epidemic.
Tessier-Lavigne shares the prize with two other neuroscientists. They are being recognized for discoveries revealing the molecular mechanisms that guide axon development in neural circuits.
This work marks the beginning of an effort to better understand memory and memory loss in older adults using advanced imaging and data analysis techniques.
A technique called COSMOS will help researchers understand how our brains work and aid in the development of new drugs. The inventors have created an instructional website to help other researchers build their own relatively-inexpensive COSMOS systems.
Markedly different conclusions about brain scans reached by 70 independent teams highlight the challenges to data analysis in the modern era of mammoth datasets and highly flexible processing workflows.
The ability to make fine visual discriminations between two stimuli runs up against a natural barrier created by large groups of “noisy” neurons behaving similarly.
Using microscopy and mathematics, researchers have discovered the invisible pattern that growing neurons follow to form a brain. The technique could one day allow bioengineers to coax stem cells to grow into replacement body parts.
