Neuroscience News

Young adults crave closeness, says Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki, but misjudge how much their peers want that, too.

In a recent study of a technique to help kids with ADHD strengthen their working memory, about half of participants showed improvements in their symptoms.

Neurotech trainee Favour Nerrise is one of 10 grad students who will have three minutes to engage the audience—and a panel of judges—with their research proj

In the lab of Lauren O’Connell, associate professor of biology, researchers look to amphibian species to learn how animals evolve in response to changing env

Our brains and digestive tracts are in constant communication.

Stanford researchers have created a compound that relieves multiple types of pain in mice without building tolerance or causing psychoactive side effects.

New findings about the sugary armor on the brain’s frontline cells could shed light on cognitive decline and diseases like Alzheimer’s—and open new avenues f

Stanford Medicine spoke with neurologist Helen Bronte-Stewart, who conducted research that led to the development of a technology recently approved by the U.

The 1970s papers from Goldberg and Wurtz made ambitious mechanistic studies of higher brain functions seem feasible.

Associate Professor Jason Yeatman discusses the adoption of the Stanford-developed Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) as an approved dyslexia screenin