Neuroscience News

The same tools that Ellen Kuhl once applied to studying concrete are now revealing mysteries in how the brain folds and functions.

​It’s a question biologists have asked for years. Now, researchers exploring cell and tissue mechanics are finding answers that might one day help engineers rebuild our bodies.

A characteristic electrical-activity pattern in a key brain region predicts impulsive actions just before they occur. A brief electrical pulse at just the right time can prevent them, Stanford scientists have found.

Stanford researchers led by neurosurgeon Casey Halpern, MD, have identified, both in mice and in a human subject, a signature pattern of electrical activity in a small but important deep-brain region called the nucleus accumbens just a second or two befor

Brain-machine interfaces now treat neurological disease and change the way people with paralysis interact with the world. Improving those devices depends on getting better at translating the language of the brain.

The findings of a new Stanford-led study suggest that illicit drugs are beginning to replace prescription opioids as the source of the national drug epidemic.

What is it that makes some people the life of the party, others recluses and still others shoulder-shruggingly indifferent to the delights of social interaction?

Andrew Huberman on using virtual reality to overcome your fears.

Carla Shatz, her breakthrough discovery in vision and the developing brain

Researchers examined the most commonly used non-pharmaceutical pain management therapies following knee replacement surgery to see if they did indeed work to reduced pain while the patient was in the hospital. They found that acupuncture and electrotherap

Stanford researchers have used a revolutionary 3-D culture technique to nurse a very slowly developing set of brain cells known as astrocytes to maturity in laboratory glassware.

Stanford researchers used advanced lab technologies to show, in mice, that symptoms of autism can be countered by reducing the ratio of excitatory to inhibitory neuronal firing in the forebrain.

A new study, conducted by Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and inventor Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, and colleagues, suggests that key features of autism reflect an imbalance in signaling from two kinds of neurons in a portion of the forebrain.

Male mice are naturally territorial. In the wild or in the lab, they attack other male mice even if plenty of room, food and females are available. This behavior is under the control of a small nerve circuit in the male mouse’s brain; disabling the circui

A tiny set of nerve cells in a male mouse’s brain activates aggression. But a new Stanford study shows that the male’s susceptibility to this activation depends on whether it has been housed with other mice or in isolation.

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.