Neuroscience News

FEI-FEI LI, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, is the winner of the 2019 National Geographic Further Award.

Concussion researchers have long suggested that damage to the corpus callosum, a thick bundle of nerves that connects the brain's two halves, could result in some common side effects of concussion, like dizziness or vision problems. The assumption is stra

Twelve Stanford faculty members have been named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

The Rita Allen Foundation has named Lauren O’Connell, assistant professor of biology, and Vivianne Tawfik, assistant professor of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine, to its 2019 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, celebrating 10 young le

Grad student Adam Nekimken develops tiny mechanical devices to help researchers touch their worms in more controlled ways. Here, he talks about his path to this work.

Stanford researchers have found intrusive immune cells in a place in the brains of humans and older mice where new nerve cells are born. The intruders appear to impair nerve cell generation.

Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Selectively subduing a set of cells that migrate to the brain after a stroke occurs could meaningfully treat the stroke even days later.

Instead of trying to fix stroke-damaged nerve cells, Stanford scientists took aim at a set of first-responder immune cells that live outside the brain but rush to the site of a stroke. It worked.

By using eye-tracking technology to automatically control a pair of autofocus lenses, engineers have created a prototype for “autofocals” designed to restore proper vision in people who would ordinarily need progressive lenses.

Joy Franco, a graduate student in engineering, is a part of Stanford's Wormsense lab. This piece features an audio story with Franco on her life in science.

In the latest issue of Stanford Medicine magazine, writer Nathan Collins listens to the stories of lab members, including neurobiologist Miriam Goodman.

Rewarding experiences alter the spatial maps in our brains.

Scientists find neurons that hard-wire brains to recognize the sex of strangers

Have you ever wondered how singers like Adele and Beyonce are able to hit high and low notes with such flexibility and accuracy? Well, this ability to control pitch as we speak or sing is something that humans have but other primates do not.

Plans, dreams and day-to-day work for a team studying the sense of touch.