Neuroscience News

Stanford University on Thursday named a neuroscientist with stellar research and biotech credentials to be its 11th president, underscoring the university's continued commitment to science.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of The Rockefeller University in New York City, will become Stanford University's 11th president on Sept. 1

Why are we always exhausted at the end of a workday? Why do we come home wiped out, with barely enough energy to make dinner before collapsing for the night?

Brain scientists have devised an algorithm that spontaneously decodes human conscious thought at the speed of experience.

Thomas Clandinin, professor of neurobiology, has been appointed the first Shooter Family Professor, created to support a member of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.

As neuroscientists decipher the workings of the brain, new questions will be raised about decoding memories, ascertaining intentions and defusing criminal behaviour. What if neuro-evidence is invited into the courtroom?

As emerging technologies open up new prospects for enhancing health and productivity, how can we ensure that our humanity and humanness are not lost?

Will neuroscience revolutionize the practice of criminal law? Might it fundamentally change the criminal justice system by undercutting the notion of “free will” once and for all?

Part of it depends on whether they believe personality is fixed or constantly changing.

Imagine a world with less expensive and more resilient crops, plants that can meet the world’s need for liquid biofuels, no more malaria-carrying mosquitos, real blue roses, living woolly mammoths, unicorns and a few devastating new plagues.

About 400,000 people in the United States are affected by multiple sclerosis (often referred to by the acronym MS), an autoimmune disorder in which rogue immune cells attack the insulating layer surrounding many nerve cells in the central nervous system.

Learning about how ants organize their collective behavior may help us to understand other systems.

Now we can start asking interesting questions about impulse control and gambling.

Whether a person will place a risky bet comes down to a newly discovered tract of neurons spanning two brain regions. The findings could help understand and treat gambling or addiction disorders.

It’s particularly rare that it’s the scientists themselves being examined, but one Stanford psychologist decided to do just that by monitoring his own brain activity for a year and a half.

Zolpidem, better known by the trade name Ambien, increased the rate at which mice that had strokes recovered their pre-stroke sensory acuity and motor coordination.