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We tapped Stanford experts from across disciplines to find out how the science of decision-making can help you choose better.

How do our brains give us moments of intense focus while at the same time monitoring our surroundings for new information that might be even more critical?

DNA regions susceptible to breakage and loss are genetic hot spots for important evolutionary changes, according to Stanford study. The findings may lead to new understanding of human evolution.

In a small trial, brain scans revealed who was most at risk of relapsing after being treated for addiction to stimulants like amphetamines or cocaine. The finding could identify people who need help staying drug-free.

Building smarter artificial intelligence systems might help us understand natural intelligence and unlock the secrets of the brain, and knowledge about how our brains work might help make artificial intelligence smarter. Or it might not.

Researchers led by Daniel Palanker have discovered that an imaging technique known as interferometry could be used to monitor neuron behavior.

Brain scientists have plenty of ways to track the activity of individual neurons in the brain, but they’re all invasive. Now, Stanford researchers have found a way to literally watch neurons fire – no electrodes or chemical modifications required.

Stanford scientists are making efforts to create high-resolution simulated versions of the human brain, bells and whistles and warts and all.

The new technique repurposes a common tool in biology that can help separate red blood cells from white blood cells or human cells from microbial cells.

Simply learning of a genetic risk can alter a person’s physiology, a recent study found, causing people to perform less well on exercise tests or altering hormones that indicate fullness after a meal.

Three types of cells in the brain’s white matter show interwoven problems during the cognitive dysfunction that follows treatment with the cancer drug methotrexate, Stanford neuroscientists have found.

On intelligence: its creation and understanding

Algorithms generated through machine learning can sort through observations of children’s behavior in short home videos to determine if the children have autism, a Stanford study has shown.

A Stanford Medicine magazine article shares four stories of digital medicine helping patients.

How digital medicine is improving patient care

In a study, paralyzed people with tiny brain implants were able to directly operate a tablet just by thought.

What does any part of the brain do? This simple question remains largely unanswered in cognitive neuroscience, where researchers are charting out the functional territories of the human brain.

Stanford researchers have developed an electronic glove that bestows robotic hands with some of the manual dexterity humans enjoy.

New technology could make your drive therapy time.

Scope, the Stanford Medicine blog, recently profiled JOHN ADLER, a neurosurgeon and innovator whose desire to help patients has led him down an entrepreneurial path multiple times.