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Addicted to vaped nicotine, teenagers have no clear path to quitting
Alarmed by the addictive nature of nicotine in e-cigarettes and its impact on the developing brain, public health experts are struggling to address a surging new problem: how to help teenagers quit vaping.
Stanford researchers develop a method to watch as neurons fire without invasive electrodes or chemical modifications
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.
Dr. Sergiu Pasca Receives Award from American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Congratulations! – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University Sergiu Pasca, MD, for receiving the 2018 Daniel H. Efron Research Award.
Computer memory: A scientific team builds a virtual model of a key brain region
Stanford scientists are making efforts to create high-resolution simulated versions of the human brain, bells and whistles and warts and all.
Just thinking you have poor endurance genes changes your body
Simply telling people they had a gene that lowers exercise ability made them perform worse on a treadmill.
An ability to sort microparticles by shape could improve human health
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.
Stanford researchers found that receiving genetic information can alter a person’s risk
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.
‘Chemo brain’ caused by malfunction in three types of brain cells
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.
The intertwined quest for understanding biological intelligence and creating artificial intelligence
The Most Important Workplace Conversation: Our Mental Health
If mindset is the most important thing to creating winning cultures, then why aren't we talking about mental health as a key performance indicator of organizational success?
Kids With Concussions Can Phase In Exercise, Screen Time Sooner Than Before
While a day or two of complete rest may be necessary for kids after a concussion, any more could leave them feeling isolated and anxious, says Angela Lumba-Brown, a pediatric emergency medicine physician who helped shape new guidelines.
The Neurons That Tell Time
The discovery of brain structures that apparently mark time has raised a larger question: What is time, anyway?
Home videos of children can be scored to diagnose autism
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.
Stanford explores use of digital tools to improve human health
A Stanford Medicine magazine article shares four stories of digital medicine helping patients.
Brain implant lets people with limb paralysis compose and send emails, select videos and even play music, just by thinking
In a study, paralyzed people with tiny brain implants were able to directly operate a tablet just by thought.
Resolving conflict in the medial frontal cortex
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.
