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Conventional MRI or CT scans can reveal only so much about what a patient’s brain looks like. But feed those images into VR technology, and surgeons can see the brain—all the ridges and fissures, lobes and veins—in 3D, so they can simulate surgery before

Brain development is a remarkable self-organization process in which cells proliferate, differentiate, migrate, and wire to form functional neural circuits. In humans, this process takes place over a long fetal phase and continues into the postnatal period, but it is largely inaccessible for direct, functional investigation at a cellular level. Therefore, the features that make the human central nervous system unique and the sequence of molecular and cellular events underlying brain disorders remain largely uncharted.

Machine learning makes new sense of psychiatric symptoms

From the disappearance of good health insurance to the psychological effects of long hours, the modern workplace is taking its toll on all of us.

Alarmed by the addictive nature of nicotine in e-cigarettes and its impact on the developing brain, public health experts are struggling to address a surging new problem: how to help teenagers quit vaping.

Chores are the worst.

Congratulations! – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University Sergiu Pasca, MD, for receiving the 2018 Daniel H. Efron Research Award.

Studies suggest the role of caregiver can put people at risk for developing PTSD.

Simply telling people they had a gene that lowers exercise ability made them perform worse on a treadmill.

If mindset is the most important thing to creating winning cultures, then why aren't we talking about mental health as a key performance indicator of organizational success?

The discovery of brain structures that apparently mark time has raised a larger question: What is time, anyway?

While a day or two of complete rest may be necessary for kids after a concussion, any more could leave them feeling isolated and anxious, says Angela Lumba-Brown, a pediatric emergency medicine physician who helped shape new guidelines.

New study points to remarkable outcomes for victims of paralysis.

Artificial intelligence has a problem: The biases of its creators are getting hard-coded into its future. Fei-Fei Li has a plan to fix that—by rebooting the field she helped invent.

Research shows that when women get a whiff of their partner, it reduces stress hormones.

Marc Freeman lauds the transgender neurobiologist's posthumously published memoir.

Despite persistent optimism, roboticists and A.I. researchers have painfully learned that while computers can run mathematical circles around humans, things that humans do without thinking are the most difficult for machines.

Sergiu Pasca, assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, has been named recipient of the 2018 ASCB Early Career Life Scientist Award.

Research shows that we can tame anxiety to use it as a resource.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCHER Fei-Fei Li has spent her career trying to make software smart—with some success. Lately she’s begun to ask herself a new question: How can we make smart software aligned with human values?