Neuroscience News

Low oxygen levels during brain development may cause particular cells to differentiate too soon, a Stanford-led study found.

Adults who played Pokémon videogames extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of Pikachu and other characters from the series.

Millions of Americans take millions of sleeping pills every year — a sign, many experts say, that human beings weren’t designed to live in a wired world of constant stimulation.

The ear is like a biological equivalent of a USB port.

Do you know how much time has passed since you started reading this mystery?

Devices tucked inside your ears will make technology more personal than ever before.

University’s M.B.A. program seeks new revenue by offering popular emotional intelligence course to working people; ‘This isn’t therapy’

In a Stanford study of 30 children with autism, intranasal vasopressin improved social skills more than a placebo, suggesting that the hormone may treat core features of the disorder.

Opposite approaches to altering the activity of vasopressin in the brain improved some social deficits in people with autism.

Karla Kirkegaard, Mark Krasnow and William Weis are now part of an organization created in 1863 to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology.

A team of scientists at Duke University, sought to understand how the brain predicts and turns down sounds that arise during self-movement.

Biased - Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

A battery-like device could act as an artificial synapse within computing systems intended to imitate the brain’s efficiency and ability to learn.

Jennifer Dionne, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Alan T. Waterman Award. The award recognizes outstanding young researchers in science or engineering and is among NSF’s top disti

No one knows exactly how flatworms can rebuild their entire bodies from the tiniest sliver. Now, bioengineers and materials scientists are building new tools to study the worms’ awesome regenerative powers.

The opioid epidemic is threatening the hard-fought gains in the prevention and control of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV). Stanford Health Policy's Douglas K. Owens leads a team of decision scientists who received a highly prestigious NIH MERIT award to t