Neuroscience News

A protein once thought to exclusively work in the immune system turns out to be critical in the developing brain. The discovery by Stanford Bio-X scientists helps explain how the brain prunes back unused connections early in life, and could also lead to n

Stanford Neuroscientist Ricardo E. Dolmetsch has pioneered a major shift in autism research, largely putting aside behavioral questions to focus on cell biology and biochemistry at Stanford.

When initiated soon after menopause, hormone therapy with estradiol prevented degeneration in key brain regions of women who were at heightened dementia risk, according to a new study led by Stanford Neurosciences Institute researchers.

A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists has found the secret to how nerves withstand the wear and tear of bending joints and moving tissues: an elastic-like protein matrix that keeps them resilient.

A team of Stanford Neuroengineers has developed mice whose sensitivity to pain can be dialed up or down by shining light on their paws. The research could help scientists understand and eventually treat chronic pain in humans.

Stanford graduate students take human and animal brains into middle schools in Palo Alto and East Palo Alto.

This cross-discipline research that began with campus newts has led to discovery of a way to highlight the location of pain in a living animal. In the long run, this work, centered in Stanford’s Bio-X program, could also produce a new type of drug for tre

Stanford University School of Medicine neuroscientists have discovered a new role played by a common but mysterious class of brain cells

Scientists have shown how a protein fragment known as beta-amyloid, strongly implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, begins destroying synapses before it clumps into plaques that lead to nerve cell death.

Researchers have shown that oxytocin — often referred to as "the love hormone" because of its importance in the formation and maintenance of strong mother-child and sexual attachments — is involved in a broader range of social interactions than previously

A defective trash-disposal system in the brain’s resident immune cells may be a major contributor to neurodegenerative disease. Preliminary observations show that this defect appears in the brains of patients who died of Alzheimer’s disease, so correcting

The steady accumulation of a protein in healthy, aging brains may explain seniors’ vulnerability to neurodegenerative disorders, a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine reports.

Long-term hearing loss from loud explosions, such as blasts from roadside bombs, may not be as irreversible as previously thought, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

A chemical code scrawled on histones — the protein husks that coat DNA in every animal or plant cell — determines which genes in that cell are turned on and which are turned off. Now, Stanford researchers have taken a new step in the deciphering of that h

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that a naturally occurring protein secreted only in discrete areas of the mammalian brain may act as a Valium-like brake on certain types of epileptic seizures.

Stanford scientists have created a mouse model of muscular dystrophy in which degenerating muscle tissue gives off visible light.