Neuroscience News

Millions of people are slowly losing their vision to diseases of the retina, such as age-related macular degeneration. Now, a device more than a decade in the making may help some of them see again.

Andea Goldsmith, the Stephen Harris Professor and professor of electrical engineering, recently received the ACM Athena Lecturer Award.

Psychological approaches can help control the agony and lessen the need for drugs.

Stanford researcher Rob Malenka, MD, PhD, is known as "a neuroscientist's neuroscientist." I

Getting whacked in the head is a serious public health problem: around 2.8 million people end up in the hospital every year with a concussion or other traumatic brain injury, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and nearly half a m

Hannah Upp disappears for weeks at a time, forgetting her sense of self. Can she still be found?

Graduate student Kristin Muench sat down with Michael Lin, an associate professor of neuroscience and bioengineering and a member of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, to ask him about his research and the promise of technology in neuroscience research

A new study reveals a complicated relationship between impact and injury.

Concussion is a major public health problem, but not much is known about the impacts that cause concussion or how to prevent them. A new study suggests that the problem is more complicated than previously thought.

A pioneering protein chemist at Stanford, Shooter parsed the physiological roles of key brain growth factors. He also hired and nurtured young faculty who would become highly successful scientists.

As Stanford interdisciplinary scientists find new ways to push, pull and sometimes simply jiggle cells and even individual molecules, they’re also discovering microscopic answers to some of the biggest questions in biology and health.

In an interview with Neuron, Robert Malenka shares his favorite discovery moments and discusses his philosophy for running a lab, the influence of his clinical training, and his broad interests, ranging from basic synaptic physiology to circuits mediating

By converting brain waves into sound, even non-specialists can detect “silent seizures” – epileptic seizures without the convulsions most of us expect.

Researchers like Marion Buckwalter and her colleague Maarten Lansberg, MD, PhD, an associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences, are working on how to prevent dementia in stroke survivors, nearly half of whom develop the condition in the fir

our culture is in the middle of a politeness shortage. Imagine a reader from five years ago leafing through today’s Washington Post. She’d probably be shocked at the vulgarity of our national conversation. Social media is overrun with bullying.

The human brain is one of the great mysteries in science, and it's a tough nut to crack. How can you study its development when so much of it takes place while a child is still in its mother's uterus?