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A brain-imaging discovery by Stanford scientists resolves a century-old argument
Results from a brain-imaging study led scientists into a medical mystery going back to 1881, involving a disputed brain pathway discovered by one scientist and ignored by others. The team rediscovered the pathway's original publication in texts in the bas
Study finds brain abnormalities in chronic fatigue patients
Radiology researchers have discovered that the brains of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have diminished white matter and white matter abnormalities in the right hemisphere.
Cannabis connection
The blocking of endocannabinoids — the brain’s internal versions of marijuana’s psychoactive chemicals — appears to play a role in the early pathology of Alzheimer’s disease.
Decoy drug developed by Stanford Bio-X scientists allows brains of adult mice to form new connections
A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists has restored the ability of adult mice to form new connections in the brain. If the finding works in people, it has the potential to help adults recover from stroke and forms of blindness or to prevent the loss of conne
New wave of brain research aims to understanding every function
The National Institutes of Health last week announced $47 million in grants as part of President Obama’s Brain Initiative, a project announced 18 months ago to, in the simplest language, reverse-engineer the human brain. The grants were among the first in a roughly 11-year plan that could cost more than $3 billion.
Miniature wireless device being developed by Stanford Bio-X team creates better way of studying chronic pain
A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists and engineers is creating a small wireless device that will improve studies of chronic pain. The scientists hope to use what they learn to develop better therapies for the condition, which costs the economy $600 billion
Efforts to refine tools for recording brain activity get $1 million boost with BRAIN Initiative grant
Yesterday the National Institutes of Health handed out the first $46 million in funding for their BRAIN initiative. Stanford neuroscientists Mark Schnitzer and Michael Lin got one of those awards worth almost $1 million to develop improved ways of recordi
Can transfusions of young blood help cure Alzheimer’s in older people?
It sounds like the dark plot of a vampire movie. Next month, people with Alzheimer’s disease will be given the blood of young people in the hope that it will reverse some of the damage caused by the condition.
Researchers delve into what triggers set species apart
The genetic makeup of humans, fruit flies and roundworms is remarkably similar, which is why scientists have long favored using the latter two organisms to study human conditions and diseases. But a team of Stanford researchers is beginning to unravel some of the specific genetic triggers that occur during each species’ development to set them apart.
Stanford scientists track the rise and fall of brain volume throughout life
Stanford scientists have shown how the brain changes throughout life, and created a standard curve that can be used to assess whether patients are maturing and aging normally. This resource could help diagnose or monitor people with mental health conditio
Gel-like padding being developed by a Stanford Bio-X team could help cells survive injection and heal spinal cord injuries
A team of Bio-X scientists is developing a gel to help protect cells from the trauma of being injected into an injury site. The work could help speed cell-based therapies for spinal cord injuries and other types of damage.
Stanford scientists reveal complexity in the brain's wiring diagram
A Stanford Bio-X team found that the brain's wiring is more complex than expected – one set of neural wires can trigger different reactions, depending on how it fires. The work opens new questions for scientists trying to map the brain's connections.
Chronic pain, lousy mood are chemically connected
A team of Stanford neurologists have found evidence that chronic pain triggers a series of molecular changes in the brain that may sap patients' motivation.
Targeted brain stimulation aids stroke recovery in mice, scientists find
Optogenetically stimulating mice’s brains five days after stroke improved the animals’ motor control and brain biochemistry.
Rethinking Alzheimer's - Looking to its origins for a treatment
Instead of trying to address signs and symptoms seen in the end stage of disease, researchers are looking at what goes wrong much earlier in Alzheimer’s.
With DARPA Support, Lawrence Lab Seeks to Develop Brain Implant to Treat Memory Loss
DARPA announces a new multi-million dollar effort to develop and test a new generation of therapeutic brain implants that will help service members, veterans and civilians recover from memory loss caused by brain trauma or disease.
Scientists tie social behavior to activity in specific brain circuit
Signaling activity along a single nerve tract deep within the brain predicts a living, wide-awake, freely moving animal’s tendency to socialize.
Seeing the inner workings of the brain made easier by new technique from Stanford scientists
Bio-X scientists have improved on their original technique for peering into the intact brain, making it more reliable and safer. The results could help scientists unravel the inner connections of how thoughts, memories or diseases arise.
Blocking brain’s ‘internal marijuana’ may trigger early Alzheimer’s deficits, study shows
A-beta, a substance suspected as a prime culprit in Alzheimer’s disease, may start impairing learning and memory long before plaques form in the brain.A new study led by investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine has implicated the blocki
