Featured News Image news | Apr 25 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Why our brains are bad at climate change This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with neuroeconomist Nik Sawe about the neuroscience of environmental decision-making, and why long-term thinking is so hard for our brains 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 Image news | Jun 19 2015 Stanford News - Building a Brain - Step 1 Map the circuits If you wanted to reverse-engineer a piece of electronics, the first thing you'd investigate is how the various parts are connected. In the brain, that means tracing the paths of 100 billion neurons. Image news | Jun 15 2015 Stanford Medicine - News Center Awards recognize exceptional work in education, patient care Faculty, staff, residents and a student were honored for a variety of contributions to Stanford Medicine at the medical school’s 2015 commencement. Image news | Jun 11 2015 Stanford Medicine - News Center Scientists find genetic underpinnings of functional brain networks seen in imagi... Imaging studies have delineated brain networks consisting of discrete brain regions acting in synchrony. This view of the brain’s functional architecture has now been confirmed by a study showing coordination at the genetic level as well. Image news | Jun 2 2015 Stanford Medicine - News Center Carla Shatz shares $500,000 Gruber Prize Carla Shatz has uncovered mechanisms that the brain uses to select which connections to strengthen or prune back as brain circuits form. news | Jun 2 2015 Palo Alto Online Stanford professor wins $500K Gruber Neuroscience Prize Carla Shatz's work has aided understanding of disorders such as autism, Alzheimer's Image news | May 28 2015 Stanford Medicine - News Center Researchers tie unexpected brain structures to creativity — and to stifling it A new study is the first to directly implicate the cerebellum in the creative process. As for the brain’s higher-level executive-control centers? Not so much. news | May 28 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope Stanford researchers tie unexpected brain structures to creativity – and to stif... How often does the accountant turn out to be the life of the party? How often do the Nike sneakers, rather than the Armani suits, call the shots? Yet that may be the case when it comes to – of all things! – creativity. news | May 27 2015 The New York Times A Robot That Can Perform Brain Surgery on a Fruit Fly On a small darkened platform a handful of fruit flies wander aimlessly. There is a brief flash of light and a robotic arm darts downward, precisely targeting a fly’s thorax, a moving target roughly the size of a pinhead. Pagination Previous page Page 136 Page 137 Current page 138 Page 139 Page 140 Next page
Image news | Apr 25 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Why our brains are bad at climate change This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with neuroeconomist Nik Sawe about the neuroscience of environmental decision-making, and why long-term thinking is so hard for our brains
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
Image news | Jun 19 2015 Stanford News - Building a Brain - Step 1 Map the circuits If you wanted to reverse-engineer a piece of electronics, the first thing you'd investigate is how the various parts are connected. In the brain, that means tracing the paths of 100 billion neurons.
Image news | Jun 15 2015 Stanford Medicine - News Center Awards recognize exceptional work in education, patient care Faculty, staff, residents and a student were honored for a variety of contributions to Stanford Medicine at the medical school’s 2015 commencement.
Image news | Jun 11 2015 Stanford Medicine - News Center Scientists find genetic underpinnings of functional brain networks seen in imagi... Imaging studies have delineated brain networks consisting of discrete brain regions acting in synchrony. This view of the brain’s functional architecture has now been confirmed by a study showing coordination at the genetic level as well.
Image news | Jun 2 2015 Stanford Medicine - News Center Carla Shatz shares $500,000 Gruber Prize Carla Shatz has uncovered mechanisms that the brain uses to select which connections to strengthen or prune back as brain circuits form.
news | Jun 2 2015 Palo Alto Online Stanford professor wins $500K Gruber Neuroscience Prize Carla Shatz's work has aided understanding of disorders such as autism, Alzheimer's
Image news | May 28 2015 Stanford Medicine - News Center Researchers tie unexpected brain structures to creativity — and to stifling it A new study is the first to directly implicate the cerebellum in the creative process. As for the brain’s higher-level executive-control centers? Not so much.
news | May 28 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope Stanford researchers tie unexpected brain structures to creativity – and to stif... How often does the accountant turn out to be the life of the party? How often do the Nike sneakers, rather than the Armani suits, call the shots? Yet that may be the case when it comes to – of all things! – creativity.
news | May 27 2015 The New York Times A Robot That Can Perform Brain Surgery on a Fruit Fly On a small darkened platform a handful of fruit flies wander aimlessly. There is a brief flash of light and a robotic arm darts downward, precisely targeting a fly’s thorax, a moving target roughly the size of a pinhead.