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New tools for probing the inner workings of neurons developed through an initiative of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute will help scientists understand and heal the brain.

Empathy at Scale, is a study that puts participants in a variety of scenes designed to help them imagine the experience of being homeless themselves.

Tony Wyss-Coray recently received a 2015 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award to build a potentially game-changing tool to track the aging process in mice.

All too often, you read of a basic-research advance that promises to lead to new therapies — and then you never hear about it again. But this time there’s some follow-up to report on the multiple-sclerosis therapy front.

A new study published in Cerebral Cortex suggested that spontaneous improvisation — not only can be improved by training, but also appears to correspond to a particular state of brain activity characterized by the suppression of the very brain centers see

As previously announced, Stanford neuroscientist Carla Shatz, PhD, received the happy news that she was a winner of the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience; here now is a look at the scene in her lab yesterday afternoon.

Carla Shatz has won the Kavli Neuroscience Prize for her work in understanding how the brain forms the proper connections and Calvin Quate has won the Kavli Nanoscience Prize for his lead role in inventing the atomic force microscope.

Sonia Olea Coontz, suffered a stroke in 2011 that left her limping. Now, thanks to an experimental procedure she underwent in 2013 — a full two years later — she’s jogging.

The neurobiologist received the recognition for her work in understanding how the brain’s connections form. She will share a $1 million prize with two other winners.

Stanford neuroscientist Carla Shatz, PhD, who is director of Stanford Bio-X, got an urgent message to return a call to Norway. That’s when she learned that she had won the prestigious Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, along with Marder and Michael Merzenich, P

People disabled by a stroke demonstrated substantial recovery long after the event when modified adult stem cells were injected into their brains.

Stanford psychiatrist-bioengineer-neuroscientist-inventor Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, has pioneered two separate technologies that, while quite different from one another, pose the prospect of working together to enable new strides in brain research.

Robert Malenka, the Nancy Friend Pritzer Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, is famous for his discoveries on how neurons in our brain make and store new memories. He is also a pioneer in the field of addiction research

To find out what time of day is best for learning, undergraduate Meagan Shinbashi spent late nights in the lab giving memory tests to mice.

Inconsistency among countries about what constitutes a "standard drink" and definitions of low-risk drinking hampers international research and confuses people attempting to drink responsibly.

What happens when two Nobel Laureates get talking? They hatch a crazy plan to take teeny tiny diamonds from crude oil and – presto change-o – turn them into a novel way of imaging molecules and structures in the brain.

Stanford researchers developed facial-recognition software specifically for Google Glass. The software acts as a coach, helping the kids search for and correctly identify emotions expressed on people’s faces.

Over the past decade, a team led by two Stanford-SLAC faculty members has found potential roles for diamondoids in improving electron microscope images, assembling materials and printing circuits on computer chips.

Dr. Emmanuel Mignot is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and the director of Stanford’s Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine. He is best known for discovering the cause of narcolepsy.

Diogo Peixoto, is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in neurobiology, is researching the neural basis for perceptual decision making and the brain circuits that combine visual information to make categorical decisions. The Daily spoke with Diogo about his exper