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We humans spend a third of our lives asleep, oblivious to our surroundings and temporarily paralyzed.

Hongjie Dai, Julie Parsonnet and Joseph Wu are among the 90 regular members and 10 international members elected this year to the academy, which aims to provide independent, scientifically informed analysis and recommendations on health issues.

A robotic surgical assistant known as ROSA™ recently helped experts at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford prepare for a minimally-invasive surgery to alleviate a little girl's seizures.

A discovery about a neural circuit located deep in the brains of female mice may give scientists a map to learn more about female human brains, according to a new study published in Cell and led by molecular neuroscientist Nirao Shah, MBBS, PhD.

Two pioneering scientists who transformed the fields of artificial intelligence and gene editing discuss the impacts of their technologies and the ethics of scientific discovery leading up to a public talk later this month.

The Stanford ChEM-H Building and the Stanford Neurosciences Building are opening this month as part of a new research complex dedicated to improving human health.

Five researchers were awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health to study opioid misuse and pain treatment.

In 2014, U.S. regulators approved a futuristic treatment for blindness. The device, called Argus II, sends signals from a glasses-mounted camera to a roughly 3-by-5-millimeter grid of electrodes at the back of eye.

As children transition from adolescence to adulthood, their brains can grow electrical insulation that supports reading and facial recognition, according to research from the Stanford Psychology Department.

It outlines evidence indicating that brain differences between males and females contribute to differences in behavior and cognition.

Transient bursts of high-frequency electrical activity in epileptic brain tissue can impair cognition even when no seizure is occurring, Stanford scientists have found.

To bring neuroscience down to earth, two Stanford graduate students decided to teach it through rock climbing.

Advances in precision molecular imaging promise to transform our ability to detect, diagnose and treat disease.

A new technique helps overcome one major barrier: heat.

In a study of 245 Stanford physicians, researchers found that a better diet is associated with reduced side effects of sleep deprivation.

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has announced its third round of seed grants to six interdisciplinary teams of researchers who collectively span departments from neurosurgery to music.

Neuroscientists had thought parts of the brain associated with reading and face recognition shrunk as children grow. In fact, they may be growing electrical insulation that makes their brains more efficient.

A new technique employs a bright infrared light that can pass through millimeters of tissue to illuminate tumors deep inside the body.

Keith Humphreys founded the Stanford Network on Addiction Policy to help bring more science to debates over drug policy. He talked to Stanford News about why he started SNAP and how it works.

The researchers received National Institutes of Health grants to support innovative work in the life sciences.