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Psychiatric units continue to be the hidden corners of hospitals, the secluded floors that many hope to avoid. Patients openly chat with friends and family about trips to emergency departments, primary-care clinics and even operating rooms, but this isn’t

Addiction changes the brain in lasting ways, and some brains are more vulnerable than others.

People who think they're more slothlike than peers may change their behavior to actually become less active.

Using neuroscience to help determine the best treatment plans for patients with psychiatric conditions — everything from depression to anxiety to bipolar disorder — is a growing area of research in a field that is in desperately in need of better treatmen

some patients, particularly those battling weight issues, a doctor’s declarations of personal fitness may not have the intended effect of attracting new patients. Instead, rather than inspiring them, it can drive them away.

Stanford postdoc Peng Yuan authored a Working Life piece on the financial reality of supporting a family on a postdoc salary in the Silicon Valley.

Wellness programs are becoming an integral priority for most human resource managers. After all, research shows that a happier workplace is more productive. There is one important wellness factor that many are forgetting even though it may be the most pot

Stanford Medicine faculty, staff, residents and students were honored for teaching and clinical skills.

Addiction, like riding a bike, is a learned behavioral pattern you don’t unlearn even if you haven’t performed it for decades. Your brain’s semi-permanently hot-wired reward system has to be stripped down, reordered, and re-insulated again.

Legal and illegal drugs are killing more people than AIDS ever did, yet the nation’s drug policies are based on unproven assumptions about addiction. Neuroscience could help shape more effective policies and save lives.

New technologies and new hypotheses have generated a growing pile of evidence that there are inherent differences in how men’s and women’s brains are wired and how they work.

The Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer will be honored for three distinct contributions to the medical field: optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry and research into depression.

Karl Deisseroth was honored with the Fresenius Research Prize for three distinct contributions to the medical field: optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry and research on depression.

Ever wish you were one of those people who could quickly memorize the order of all the cards in a deck? You can be, according to researchers from the Stanford School of Medicine and from the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior in the Nethe

One rainy day in October 2007, Dennis Degray was taking out the trash when he slipped, fell and landed on his chin. He severely injured his spinal cord, becoming paralyzed from the neck down. “I’ve got nothing going on below the collarbones,” he says.

The cognitive differences between men and women

Stanford researcher Carolyn Rodriguez, MD, PhD, was the first to explore ketamine as a treatment for OCD.

As research shows that the hallucinogen is a potentially powerful treatment for intractable mental disorders, and academics continue to debate its safety, private clinics across the country offer the drug to patients now.

A Stanford psychiatrist is researching the effects of ketamine on the brains of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, hoping to determine why, in studies, the drug has provided relief from symptoms.

The winners of the individual awards are Ben Barres, a professor at Stanford Medicine, and James Jordan, a senior manager at the Stanford Alumni Association. The winner of the program award is the Diversity and First-Gen Office.