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The National Institutes of Health set an ambitious price tag on its part of President Obama’s Brain Initiative on the scale of the Human Genome Project co-led by William Newsome, Director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.

Stanford Neurosciences scientist, Ada Poon and her team of researchers have invented a chip as tiny as a grain of rice that wirelessly beams power to tiny implants located deep inside the body.

Something — or some things — in the blood of young mice has the ability to restore mental capabilities in old mice, a new study by Stanford Neurosciences Institute investigators has found.

If you are unable to think of a catchy, creative way to present sales data or begin a newspaper column, take a walk. A brief stroll, even around your office, can significantly increase creativity, according to a handy new study by Daniel Schwartz, Stanfor

Stanford Neurosciences Institute faculty affiliate, Kwabena Boahen's team of bioengineers build neurogrid circuit board modeled on the human brain

If you are unable to think of a catchy, creative way to present sales data or begin a newspaper column, take a walk. A brief stroll, even around your office, can significantly increase creativity, according to a handy new study by Stanford Neurosciences I

Stanford scientists have developed faster, more energy-efficient microchips based on the human brain – 9,000 times faster and using significantly less power than a typical PC. This offers greater possibilities for advances in robotics and a new way of und

Stanford scientists have created new tools that let researchers read brain activity by observing glowing trails of light spreading between connected nerves.

Stanford Neuroscientist, Karl Deisseroth helped create the field of optogenetics, spawning a suite of techniques to turn brain cells on and off with a combination of genetic manipulation and pulses of light.

Carrying a copy of a gene variant called ApoE4 confers a substantially greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease on women than it does on men.

A protein once thought to exclusively work in the immune system turns out to be critical in the developing brain. The discovery by Stanford Bio-X scientists helps explain how the brain prunes back unused connections early in life, and could also lead to n

Stanford Neuroscientist Ricardo E. Dolmetsch has pioneered a major shift in autism research, largely putting aside behavioral questions to focus on cell biology and biochemistry at Stanford.

When initiated soon after menopause, hormone therapy with estradiol prevented degeneration in key brain regions of women who were at heightened dementia risk, according to a new study led by Stanford Neurosciences Institute researchers.

A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists has found the secret to how nerves withstand the wear and tear of bending joints and moving tissues: an elastic-like protein matrix that keeps them resilient.

A team of Stanford Neuroengineers has developed mice whose sensitivity to pain can be dialed up or down by shining light on their paws. The research could help scientists understand and eventually treat chronic pain in humans.

Stanford graduate students take human and animal brains into middle schools in Palo Alto and East Palo Alto.

This cross-discipline research that began with campus newts has led to discovery of a way to highlight the location of pain in a living animal. In the long run, this work, centered in Stanford’s Bio-X program, could also produce a new type of drug for tre

Stanford University School of Medicine neuroscientists have discovered a new role played by a common but mysterious class of brain cells

Scientists have shown how a protein fragment known as beta-amyloid, strongly implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, begins destroying synapses before it clumps into plaques that lead to nerve cell death.

Researchers have shown that oxytocin — often referred to as "the love hormone" because of its importance in the formation and maintenance of strong mother-child and sexual attachments — is involved in a broader range of social interactions than previously