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By converting brain waves into sound, even non-specialists can detect “silent seizures” – epileptic seizures without the convulsions most of us expect.

Researchers like Marion Buckwalter and her colleague Maarten Lansberg, MD, PhD, an associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences, are working on how to prevent dementia in stroke survivors, nearly half of whom develop the condition in the fir

The human brain is one of the great mysteries in science, and it's a tough nut to crack. How can you study its development when so much of it takes place while a child is still in its mother's uterus?

There's no known cure for multiple sclerosis. But Stanford neuroimmunologist Larry Steinman, MD, has been working on it for decades.

Tiny lab-grown blobs could aid understanding of psychiatric and neurological disease

Engineers, biologists and doctors focus on a win

It probably comes as no surprise that kids see the world differently from adults, or that the difference in viewpoint extends to how they see things like words. What may come as a surprise is that to most easily process the words they see, they need to lo

A new study finds that young children’s brains have not yet fully developed the vision circuits they need to understand words and recognize faces, a finding that could help in understanding how children learn to read.

Mentally running through a routine improves performance, but how that works isn’t clear. Now, a new tool — brain-machine interface — suggests the answer lies in how our brains prepare for action.

Defective architecture in the nanoscopic power plants that provide energy to every cell in our bodies may underlie the movement difficulties of Parkinson's disease, a new study by Stanford neuroscientist Xinnan Wang, MD, and her associates suggests.

New research suggests that targeting mitochondria could be a way to treat Parkinson's disease.

Mentally running through a routine improves performance. A new tool – brain-machine interface – sheds light on how.

Mentally running through a routine improves performance, but how that works isn’t clear. Now, a new tool – brain-machine interface – suggests the answer lies in how our brains prepare for action.

Stanford researchers have found that a small set of nerve cells in the brain regulates the debilitating seizures and cognitive deficits characteristic of the most common form of epilepsy in adults. This discovery could lead to new and better treatments.

A bout of exercise is about the last thing you'd imagine a person with chronic fatigue syndrome – also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis and often designated by the acronym ME/CFS – would want to endure. And you'd probably be right.

In the United States, there are more than 20 drugs on the market for treating epilepsy. But between 30 and 40 percent of the time, these drugs fail to halt seizures, resulting in a chronic vulnerability to sometimes ultra-frequent seizures and consequent

A new method of brain stimulation designed by Stanford researchers to treat depression rapidly improved depressive symptoms in a small group of treatment-resistant patients who had suffered for decades with no relief, according to a study published in Bra

A new method of brain stimulation designed by Stanford researchers to treat depression rapidly improved depressive symptoms in a small group of treatment-resistant patients who had suffered for decades with no relief, according to a study published in Bra

A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has something to tell us about why, at a certain point in our lives, we all wind up looking for our sunglasses for ten minutes before finding them on top of our heads.

The same tools that Ellen Kuhl once applied to studying concrete are now revealing mysteries in how the brain folds and functions.