Neuroscience News

A tiny set of nerve cells in a male mouse’s brain activates aggression. But a new Stanford study shows that the male’s susceptibility to this activation depends on whether it has been housed with other mice or in isolation.

A Stanford team found that amyloid beta did not form into the plaques and fibrils characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease when in the presence of cathelicidin. Instead, the results indicate the two compounds form a stable non-toxic complex.

Psychiatric units continue to be the hidden corners of hospitals, the secluded floors that many hope to avoid. Patients openly chat with friends and family about trips to emergency departments, primary-care clinics and even operating rooms, but this isn’t

Addiction changes the brain in lasting ways, and some brains are more vulnerable than others.

People who think they're more slothlike than peers may change their behavior to actually become less active.

Using neuroscience to help determine the best treatment plans for patients with psychiatric conditions — everything from depression to anxiety to bipolar disorder — is a growing area of research in a field that is in desperately in need of better treatmen

some patients, particularly those battling weight issues, a doctor’s declarations of personal fitness may not have the intended effect of attracting new patients. Instead, rather than inspiring them, it can drive them away.

Stanford postdoc Peng Yuan authored a Working Life piece on the financial reality of supporting a family on a postdoc salary in the Silicon Valley.

Wellness programs are becoming an integral priority for most human resource managers. After all, research shows that a happier workplace is more productive. There is one important wellness factor that many are forgetting even though it may be the most pot

Legal and illegal drugs are killing more people than AIDS ever did, yet the nation’s drug policies are based on unproven assumptions about addiction. Neuroscience could help shape more effective policies and save lives.

Stanford Medicine faculty, staff, residents and students were honored for teaching and clinical skills.

Addiction, like riding a bike, is a learned behavioral pattern you don’t unlearn even if you haven’t performed it for decades. Your brain’s semi-permanently hot-wired reward system has to be stripped down, reordered, and re-insulated again.

New technologies and new hypotheses have generated a growing pile of evidence that there are inherent differences in how men’s and women’s brains are wired and how they work.

The Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer will be honored for three distinct contributions to the medical field: optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry and research into depression.

Karl Deisseroth was honored with the Fresenius Research Prize for three distinct contributions to the medical field: optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry and research on depression.

One rainy day in October 2007, Dennis Degray was taking out the trash when he slipped, fell and landed on his chin. He severely injured his spinal cord, becoming paralyzed from the neck down. “I’ve got nothing going on below the collarbones,” he says.