Neuroscience News

Five new categories of mental illness that cut across the current more broad diagnoses of anxiety and depression have been identified by researchers in a Stanford-led study.

Worrying actually helps alleviate the negative effects on memory and cognitive processing caused by depression and anxiety in older adults, according to a new study published recently in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.

Strong friendships are a precious resource, but scientists know surprisingly little about them. In particular, it’s difficult to predict what about a person makes it likely that they will attract close friends or be viewed as a close friend by others.

A brain system involved in everything from addiction to autism appears to have evolved differently in people than in great apes, a team reports Thursday in the journal Science.

The grant will help Stanford investigators find out if variants in many different autism-linked genes trigger the condition by affecting molecular pathways and cellular processes.

Ultrasonic energy can be harnessed to alter brain activity and treat disease — but first, scientists need to learn how it works.

Stanford researchers will be digging further into the inner workings of our brains and the tools to do so, thanks to the latest round of grants from the National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN)

While the popular imagination was piqued by the thought that, just maybe, Count Dracula had it right, more sober minds reflected on the discovery’s potential medical applications. Wyss-Coray, co-founded a biotechnology company which has funded a clinical

What makes humans special? Some credit should go to the opposable thumb and the larynx, says neuroscientist David Eagleman, but a lot of it has to do with our ability to be creative and constantly think up new ideas.

In a small safety trial based on preclinical work by a Stanford researcher, participants receiving blood plasma infusions from young donors showed some evidence of improvement.

A study in Cell from the lab of Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, demonstrates a new technology’s power — it helped identify hitherto-unsuspected neuronal circuity in that all-important internal brain state ca

Stanford investigators were able to simultaneously monitor activity in every nerve cell of a zebrafish’s brain and determine which types of neurons were tied to alertness.

Brainstorm’s first event featured a competition between researchers who designed virtual-reality products for diagnosing and treating mental illness.

Goldsmith received the 2017 Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Mentorship Award from the IEEE Communications Society in recognition of her efforts to bring diversity to her field and opportunity to her students.

The first study to examine the relationship between marijuana use and frequency of sexual intercourse at the population level in the United States shows a positive correlation between the two.

The jury’s still out on rock ’n’ roll. But the link between sex and at least one drug, marijuana, has been confirmed.