Neuroscience News

Broken links between retinal ganglion cells and target structures throughout the brain spell permanent vision loss. But in a new study, these long-distance connections — and partial vision — were restored.

A new study reinforces the need for surgeons and physicians to monitor patients' use of painkillers following surgery and use alternative methods of pain control whenever possible.

The first time any eye-brain connections have ever been restored in a mammal — a step millions of people suffering from serious vision loss will be happy to hear about.

Brain Imaging Data Structure, aka “BIDS”, is a standard way of organizing and storing MRI data. It’s kind of like telling all your colleagues to use compatible word processing software so you can share documents.

It turns out that in addition to being fascinating, neuroscience is also quite beautiful. The Stanford Neurosciences Institute recently announced the eleven finalists in their Art of Neuroscience competition.

Eleven images representing a broad cross section of neuroscience research have been chosen as finalists in the Stanford Neuroscience Institute’s Art of Neuroscience competition.

There's something that really bothers Stanford psychiatry professor Keith Humphreys. When he thinks of all the years he has spent training the next generation of psychiatrists, the enormous investment in medical school and residency, he wants those doctor

Stanford neuroscientist and bioengineer Jin Hyung Lee, PhD, and her colleagues obtained a higher-resolution map of two key brain circuits that play starring roles in Parkinson disease, and a readout of the actual real-time effects, brain-wide, of stimulat

A new Stanford Neurosciences Institute initiative called the NeuroFab, has a specific goal of helping engineers and neuroscientists speak to each other and overcome some of those cultural differences.

New tools for probing the inner workings of neurons developed through an initiative of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute will help scientists understand and heal the brain.

Juliet Knowles, Megan Wyeth and Christopher Makinson awarded American Epilepsy Society grants.

Empathy at Scale, is a study that puts participants in a variety of scenes designed to help them imagine the experience of being homeless themselves.

Tony Wyss-Coray recently received a 2015 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award to build a potentially game-changing tool to track the aging process in mice.

All too often, you read of a basic-research advance that promises to lead to new therapies — and then you never hear about it again. But this time there’s some follow-up to report on the multiple-sclerosis therapy front.

A new study published in Cerebral Cortex suggested that spontaneous improvisation — not only can be improved by training, but also appears to correspond to a particular state of brain activity characterized by the suppression of the very brain centers see

As previously announced, Stanford neuroscientist Carla Shatz, PhD, received the happy news that she was a winner of the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience; here now is a look at the scene in her lab yesterday afternoon.