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Stanford scientists have shown how the brain changes throughout life, and created a standard curve that can be used to assess whether patients are maturing and aging normally. This resource could help diagnose or monitor people with mental health conditio

An idea that started as a long shot – using light to control the activity of the brain – has earned Karl Deisseroth the Keio prize in medicine. The technique, called optogenetics, is now widely used at Stanford and worldwide to understand the brain's wiri

A Stanford Bio-X team found that the brain's wiring is more complex than expected – one set of neural wires can trigger different reactions, depending on how it fires. The work opens new questions for scientists trying to map the brain's connections.

A team of Stanford neurologists have found evidence that chronic pain triggers a series of molecular changes in the brain that may sap patients' motivation.

Optogenetically stimulating mice’s brains five days after stroke improved the animals’ motor control and brain biochemistry.

By Bruce Goldman

A national report on the value of interdisciplinary approaches in the sciences highlighted Stanford Bio-X as a model for success. Carla Shatz, the director of Stanford Bio-X, talks about the report's recommendations and the factors that have helped Bio-X

Instead of trying to address signs and symptoms seen in the end stage of disease, researchers are looking at what goes wrong much earlier in Alzheimer’s.

DARPA announces a new multi-million dollar effort to develop and test a new generation of therapeutic brain implants that will help service members, veterans and civilians recover from memory loss caused by brain trauma or disease.

Bio-X scientists have improved on their original technique for peering into the intact brain, making it more reliable and safer. The results could help scientists unravel the inner connections of how thoughts, memories or diseases arise.

Signaling activity along a single nerve tract deep within the brain predicts a living, wide-awake, freely moving animal’s tendency to socialize.

A-beta, a substance suspected as a prime culprit in Alzheimer’s disease, may start impairing learning and memory long before plaques form in the brain.A new study led by investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine has implicated the blocki

The National Institutes of Health set an ambitious price tag on its part of President Obama’s Brain Initiative on the scale of the Human Genome Project co-led by William Newsome, Director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.

Stanford Neurosciences scientist, Ada Poon and her team of researchers have invented a chip as tiny as a grain of rice that wirelessly beams power to tiny implants located deep inside the body.

Something — or some things — in the blood of young mice has the ability to restore mental capabilities in old mice, a new study by Stanford Neurosciences Institute investigators has found.

Stanford Neurosciences Institute faculty affiliate, Kwabena Boahen's team of bioengineers build neurogrid circuit board modeled on the human brain

If you are unable to think of a catchy, creative way to present sales data or begin a newspaper column, take a walk. A brief stroll, even around your office, can significantly increase creativity, according to a handy new study by Daniel Schwartz, Stanfor

If you are unable to think of a catchy, creative way to present sales data or begin a newspaper column, take a walk. A brief stroll, even around your office, can significantly increase creativity, according to a handy new study by Stanford Neurosciences I

Stanford scientists have developed faster, more energy-efficient microchips based on the human brain – 9,000 times faster and using significantly less power than a typical PC. This offers greater possibilities for advances in robotics and a new way of und

Stanford scientists have created new tools that let researchers read brain activity by observing glowing trails of light spreading between connected nerves.