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As Stanford interdisciplinary scientists find new ways to push, pull and sometimes simply jiggle cells and even individual molecules, they’re also discovering microscopic answers to some of the biggest questions in biology and health.

In an interview with Neuron, Robert Malenka shares his favorite discovery moments and discusses his philosophy for running a lab, the influence of his clinical training, and his broad interests, ranging from basic synaptic physiology to circuits mediating

By converting brain waves into sound, even non-specialists can detect “silent seizures” – epileptic seizures without the convulsions most of us expect.

Researchers like Marion Buckwalter and her colleague Maarten Lansberg, MD, PhD, an associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences, are working on how to prevent dementia in stroke survivors, nearly half of whom develop the condition in the fir

The human brain is one of the great mysteries in science, and it's a tough nut to crack. How can you study its development when so much of it takes place while a child is still in its mother's uterus?

our culture is in the middle of a politeness shortage. Imagine a reader from five years ago leafing through today’s Washington Post. She’d probably be shocked at the vulgarity of our national conversation. Social media is overrun with bullying.

There's no known cure for multiple sclerosis. But Stanford neuroimmunologist Larry Steinman, MD, has been working on it for decades.

Tiny lab-grown blobs could aid understanding of psychiatric and neurological disease

Engineers, biologists and doctors focus on a win

It probably comes as no surprise that kids see the world differently from adults, or that the difference in viewpoint extends to how they see things like words. What may come as a surprise is that to most easily process the words they see, they need to lo

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a Palo Alto-based philanthropic organization, has launched a major research effort to inject fresh energy, ideas and talent into understanding the basic biology of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s dise

A new study finds that young children’s brains have not yet fully developed the vision circuits they need to understand words and recognize faces, a finding that could help in understanding how children learn to read.

Mentally running through a routine improves performance, but how that works isn’t clear. Now, a new tool — brain-machine interface — suggests the answer lies in how our brains prepare for action.

New research will transform the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Carolyn Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D. Director of the Translational OCD Research Program at Stanford Medicine, explains the latest research including potential rapid acting medicat

A new, early career award in neuroscience was created by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in honor of the late Stanford neuroscientist Ben Barres.

New research suggests that targeting mitochondria could be a way to treat Parkinson's disease.

The five-year awards from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will help fuel research into the biology of neurodegenerative diseases. The awards honor a Stanford neuroscientist who died in December.

Defective architecture in the nanoscopic power plants that provide energy to every cell in our bodies may underlie the movement difficulties of Parkinson's disease, a new study by Stanford neuroscientist Xinnan Wang, MD, and her associates suggests.

Mentally running through a routine improves performance. A new tool – brain-machine interface – sheds light on how.

A bout of exercise is about the last thing you'd imagine a person with chronic fatigue syndrome – also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis and often designated by the acronym ME/CFS – would want to endure. And you'd probably be right.