Featured News Image news | May 2 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about studies that could change our understanding of the renaissance in psychedelic medicine Image news | Apr 15 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience sheds light on childhood gut disorders The recent discovery that intestinal neurons normally self-organize into a striped pattern around the time of birth could help explain wide-ranging GI disorders in children, say Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt and her team News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroDiscovery NeuroHealth NeuroEngineering News TypeResearch news Press coverage Awards and honors Featured News Institute News Knight Initiative news Researcher profiles Podcast episodes Publications Director's messages Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest news | Nov 29 2016 KQED Radio Forum Addiction is an Illness, Not ‘a Moral Failing,’ Says Surgeon General The U.S. surgeon general released a landmark report this month calling for “a cultural shift in how we think about addiction.” The report also states that addiction is a chronic illness, not a moral failing. news | Nov 16 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope More of a single chemical in a single brain region means better mental juggling Like a computer’s RAM, working memory serves as a buffer where information, derived from the senses or retrieved from long-term memory, can be temporarily placed so the conscious brain can process it. Image news | Nov 15 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center More GABA in one brain region linked to better working memory The amount of a neurotransmitter called GABA in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex predicted individuals’ ability to keep several things in mind simultaneously, researchers found. news | Nov 8 2016 Society for Neuroscience Robert Malenka Receives Julius Axelrod Prize The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Julius Axelrod Prize to Robert Malenka, MD, PhD, of Stanford University School of Medicine. The Julius Axelrod Prize recognizes exceptional achievements in neuropharmacology or a related field and exemplar news | Nov 8 2016 Society for Neuroscience Ben Barres and Thomas Jessell Receive the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present its highest award, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, to Ben Barres, PhD, of Stanford University, and Thomas Jessell, PhD, of Columbia University. news | Nov 4 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Stanford scientists discuss the “hard problem” of consciousness with playwright ... Tom Stoppard’s latest play, which tackles issues of neuroscience and consciousness – leading to its title, “The Hard Problem” – was followed by a panel discussion with scientists from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. news | Oct 27 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Three awarded Stanford University School of Medicine’s highest honor Congratulations are in order for entrepreneur/philanthropist Sean Parker, founder of the Parker Foundation; Ann Arvin, MD, who has dedicated her career to understanding infectious diseases in children; and attorney John Levin, chair of the Stanford Health news | Oct 14 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Of recurring nightmares, dream jobs and brain-science brainiacs Nothing prevents great researchers from having great personalities. Pagination Previous page Page 117 Page 118 Current page 119 Page 120 Page 121 Next page
Image news | May 2 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about studies that could change our understanding of the renaissance in psychedelic medicine
Image news | Apr 15 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience sheds light on childhood gut disorders The recent discovery that intestinal neurons normally self-organize into a striped pattern around the time of birth could help explain wide-ranging GI disorders in children, say Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt and her team
news | Nov 29 2016 KQED Radio Forum Addiction is an Illness, Not ‘a Moral Failing,’ Says Surgeon General The U.S. surgeon general released a landmark report this month calling for “a cultural shift in how we think about addiction.” The report also states that addiction is a chronic illness, not a moral failing.
news | Nov 16 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope More of a single chemical in a single brain region means better mental juggling Like a computer’s RAM, working memory serves as a buffer where information, derived from the senses or retrieved from long-term memory, can be temporarily placed so the conscious brain can process it.
Image news | Nov 15 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center More GABA in one brain region linked to better working memory The amount of a neurotransmitter called GABA in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex predicted individuals’ ability to keep several things in mind simultaneously, researchers found.
news | Nov 8 2016 Society for Neuroscience Robert Malenka Receives Julius Axelrod Prize The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Julius Axelrod Prize to Robert Malenka, MD, PhD, of Stanford University School of Medicine. The Julius Axelrod Prize recognizes exceptional achievements in neuropharmacology or a related field and exemplar
news | Nov 8 2016 Society for Neuroscience Ben Barres and Thomas Jessell Receive the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present its highest award, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, to Ben Barres, PhD, of Stanford University, and Thomas Jessell, PhD, of Columbia University.
news | Nov 4 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Stanford scientists discuss the “hard problem” of consciousness with playwright ... Tom Stoppard’s latest play, which tackles issues of neuroscience and consciousness – leading to its title, “The Hard Problem” – was followed by a panel discussion with scientists from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley.
news | Oct 27 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Three awarded Stanford University School of Medicine’s highest honor Congratulations are in order for entrepreneur/philanthropist Sean Parker, founder of the Parker Foundation; Ann Arvin, MD, who has dedicated her career to understanding infectious diseases in children; and attorney John Levin, chair of the Stanford Health
news | Oct 14 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Of recurring nightmares, dream jobs and brain-science brainiacs Nothing prevents great researchers from having great personalities.