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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.
Neurosurgeon John Adler is a reluctant entrepreneur
Scope, the Stanford Medicine blog, recently profiled JOHN ADLER, a neurosurgeon and innovator whose desire to help patients has led him down an entrepreneurial path multiple times.
$9.6 million grant to fund research on vascular risk factors for brain aging, dementia
The Stanford project, led by neuroscientists Tony Wyss-Coray and Marion Buckwalter, will focus on the influence of immune factors and systemic inflammation on the brain.
The puzzle of a mutated gene lurking behind many Parkinson’s cases
Why a defective gene is tied so strongly to Parkinson’s disease has baffled researchers. Now, a study led by Stanford scientists appears to have pieced together a major part of the puzzle.
Fei-Fei Li's quest to make AI better for humanity
Artificial intelligence has a problem: The biases of its creators are getting hard-coded into its future. Fei-Fei Li has a plan to fix that—by rebooting the field she helped invent.
Four faculty members appointed to endowed professorships
Andra Blomkalns, Gerald Grant, David Kingsley and Crystal Mackall have been appointed to endowed professorships.
Behind many a Parkinson’s case lurks a mutation in a gene called LRRK2 — why?
Genetic mutations affecting a single gene called LRRK2 play an outsized role in Parkinson's disease, but nobody's been able to say what the connection is between the genetic defect and the brain-cell die-off that characterizes the condition. Here's a clue
Is zinc the link to how we think? Some evidence, and a word of warning
Studies have associated low zinc levels with autism spectrum disorder. But why this should be the case has been unclear. Now, scientists may have an explanation for the link.
Nanoparticle ‘cage’ allows for safe, noninvasive, precise drug delivery in the brain
Stanford researchers have shown in rats that pharmacologically active amounts of a fast-acting anesthetic drug could be released from nanoparticle "cages" in small, specified brain areas at which the scientists had aimed a beam of focused ultrasound.
Ultrasound releases drug to alter activity in targeted brain areas in rats
Stanford researchers used focused ultrasound to pry molecules of an anesthetic loose from nanoparticles. The drug’s release modified activity in brain regions targeted by the ultrasound beam.
Focusing on psychological treatment for patients with pain
Stanford Medicine pain psychologist Beth Darnall wants to see psychology incorporated into pain treatment. She discusses that in a new interview.
Three awarded Stanford School of Medicine’s highest honor
Three individuals will be awarded the Dean’s Medal for their contributions to the mission of Stanford Medicine.
Stanford researchers develop tiny nanostraws to deliver molecules to human cells safely and efficiently
Minuscule nanostraws could help solve the problem of how to deliver precise doses of molecules directly into many cells at once.
Why sniffing your partner’s used clothing could make you happier
Research shows that when women get a whiff of their partner, it reduces stress hormones.
How the brain decides what to learn
Stanford researchers have identified that the paraventricular thalamus serves as a kind of gatekeeper that identifies and tracks the most relevant details.
Stanford researchers learn how the brain decides what to learn
Neuroscientists know a lot about how our brains learn new things, but not much about how they choose what to focus on while they learn. Now, Stanford researchers have traced that ability to an unexpected place.
Carol Dweck wins 2018 SAGE-CASBS Award
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and SAGE Publishing have honored psychology Professor CAROL DWECK with the 2018 SAGE-CASBS Award.