Neuroscience News

There's no known cure for multiple sclerosis. But Stanford neuroimmunologist Larry Steinman, MD, has been working on it for decades.

Engineers, biologists and doctors focus on a win

Tiny lab-grown blobs could aid understanding of psychiatric and neurological disease

It probably comes as no surprise that kids see the world differently from adults, or that the difference in viewpoint extends to how they see things like words. What may come as a surprise is that to most easily process the words they see, they need to lo

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a Palo Alto-based philanthropic organization, has launched a major research effort to inject fresh energy, ideas and talent into understanding the basic biology of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s dise

A new study finds that young children’s brains have not yet fully developed the vision circuits they need to understand words and recognize faces, a finding that could help in understanding how children learn to read.

Mentally running through a routine improves performance, but how that works isn’t clear. Now, a new tool — brain-machine interface — suggests the answer lies in how our brains prepare for action.

New research will transform the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Carolyn Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D. Director of the Translational OCD Research Program at Stanford Medicine, explains the latest research including potential rapid acting medicat

New research suggests that targeting mitochondria could be a way to treat Parkinson's disease.

A new, early career award in neuroscience was created by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in honor of the late Stanford neuroscientist Ben Barres.

The five-year awards from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will help fuel research into the biology of neurodegenerative diseases. The awards honor a Stanford neuroscientist who died in December.

Defective architecture in the nanoscopic power plants that provide energy to every cell in our bodies may underlie the movement difficulties of Parkinson's disease, a new study by Stanford neuroscientist Xinnan Wang, MD, and her associates suggests.

Mentally running through a routine improves performance. A new tool – brain-machine interface – sheds light on how.

Mentally running through a routine improves performance, but how that works isn’t clear. Now, a new tool – brain-machine interface – suggests the answer lies in how our brains prepare for action.

Stanford researchers have found that a small set of nerve cells in the brain regulates the debilitating seizures and cognitive deficits characteristic of the most common form of epilepsy in adults. This discovery could lead to new and better treatments.

A bout of exercise is about the last thing you'd imagine a person with chronic fatigue syndrome – also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis and often designated by the acronym ME/CFS – would want to endure. And you'd probably be right.