Knight Initiative News

In 2007, Stanford University neuroscientist Ben Barres published an essay comparing the experiences of female and male scientists. What made this essay noteworthy was that he wrote from personal experience.

A new study suggests that ketamine, an increasingly popular treatment for depression, has something in common with drugs like fentanyl and oxycodone.

More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead.

Sometimes the enormous success of science leads to some wrong assumptions. In the case of brain science, the advent of sophisticated brain scans opened a window to the brain as never before.

Getting a sound night’s sleep is important for good health. But, sometimes older adults get much less sleep than they need. Health experts say seniors could sleep better if they made some simple changes.

Speeding up the chemical messenger’s action makes autism-modeling mice more social

A Palo Alto company is teaming up with a Stanford health care network and several regional high schools for a study that will use virtual reality headsets to track eye movements to better spot concussions.

Brain imaging is illuminating the neural patterns behind pain’s infinite variety.

Brad Zuchero Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University, selected to receive the 2018 McKnight Scholar Award.

Time is a funny thing. All minutes are 60 seconds long. But some last longer than others. And there may be no minute that lasts as long or causes as much distress as a minute spent on an unmoving New York City subway train, somewhere in a dark tunnel, ber

Medical and scientific breakthroughs, some with ethical concerns, are being used to help people.

The simple answer to why math education has changed, “Common Core State Standards,” is only part of the story.

Your brain makes most of its decisions without bothering to consult with you. Some are trivial but others are not so trivial.

At research centers across the country, scientists are scanning brains of patients with depression, drawing their blood, asking about their symptoms, and then scouring that data for patterns. The goal: pinpoint subtypes of depression, to figure out which

Psychological approaches can help control the agony and lessen the need for drugs.

Hannah Upp disappears for weeks at a time, forgetting her sense of self. Can she still be found?

In an interview with Neuron, Robert Malenka shares his favorite discovery moments and discusses his philosophy for running a lab, the influence of his clinical training, and his broad interests, ranging from basic synaptic physiology to circuits mediating

our culture is in the middle of a politeness shortage. Imagine a reader from five years ago leafing through today’s Washington Post. She’d probably be shocked at the vulgarity of our national conversation. Social media is overrun with bullying.

New research will transform the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Carolyn Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D. Director of the Translational OCD Research Program at Stanford Medicine, explains the latest research including potential rapid acting medicat

The average adult checks their phone 50 to 300 times each day, and smartphones use psychological tricks that encourage our continued high usage — some of the same tricks slot machines use to hook gamblers.