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When people make risky decisions, like doubling down in blackjack or investing in volatile stocks, what happens in the brain?

If the Stanford rats are any indicator, it’s a choice whose outcome can be predicted and controlled.

Marijuana legalization is often touted as a sure route to ending racial disparities in pot-related arrests. But a just-released study indicates that African Americans in legalization states continue to endure marijuana arrests at a higher rate than people

In this Brain Game, Jason Silva and Dr. Allison Okamura show us how conflicting information can trick our senses into believing lies.

A journal article says herpes virus and Lyme disease bacteria are behind the mind-robbing illness, but not all researchers are convinced

This year’s recipient of the CNS George A. Miller Prize, Wandell of Stanford University has recently turned his interests to reading and the developing brain. His latest work includes a longitudinal study of children aged 8 to 12 years old, in which he an

Jet lag affects up to 95 percent of the millions of U.S. travelers who fly across time zones each year, generally leaving them fatigued, lacking in concentration and feeling unwell overall. Medical experts offer a list of strategies to minimize its sympto

A breakthrough technology from neuroscience might allow blind people to see a monochromatic world.

Keith Humphreys is a professor of psychiatry and director of mental health policy at Stanford University.

Neuroscience Health Center includes clinic for memory disorders

Stanford University on Thursday named a neuroscientist with stellar research and biotech credentials to be its 11th president, underscoring the university's continued commitment to science.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of The Rockefeller University in New York City, will become Stanford University's 11th president on Sept. 1

Why are we always exhausted at the end of a workday? Why do we come home wiped out, with barely enough energy to make dinner before collapsing for the night?

As neuroscientists decipher the workings of the brain, new questions will be raised about decoding memories, ascertaining intentions and defusing criminal behaviour. What if neuro-evidence is invited into the courtroom?

As emerging technologies open up new prospects for enhancing health and productivity, how can we ensure that our humanity and humanness are not lost?

Will neuroscience revolutionize the practice of criminal law? Might it fundamentally change the criminal justice system by undercutting the notion of “free will” once and for all?

Part of it depends on whether they believe personality is fixed or constantly changing.

Imagine a world with less expensive and more resilient crops, plants that can meet the world’s need for liquid biofuels, no more malaria-carrying mosquitos, real blue roses, living woolly mammoths, unicorns and a few devastating new plagues.

Learning about how ants organize their collective behavior may help us to understand other systems.

It’s particularly rare that it’s the scientists themselves being examined, but one Stanford psychologist decided to do just that by monitoring his own brain activity for a year and a half.