Neuroscience News

If the Stanford rats are any indicator, it’s a choice whose outcome can be predicted and controlled.

When rats were trained to choose between high- and low-risk options while a circuit in their brains was monitored and manipulated, a specific signal in that circuit determined their choice.

When people make risky decisions, like doubling down in blackjack or investing in volatile stocks, what happens in the brain?

Marijuana legalization is often touted as a sure route to ending racial disparities in pot-related arrests. But a just-released study indicates that African Americans in legalization states continue to endure marijuana arrests at a higher rate than people

In this Brain Game, Jason Silva and Dr. Allison Okamura show us how conflicting information can trick our senses into believing lies.

A journal article says herpes virus and Lyme disease bacteria are behind the mind-robbing illness, but not all researchers are convinced

This year’s recipient of the CNS George A. Miller Prize, Wandell of Stanford University has recently turned his interests to reading and the developing brain. His latest work includes a longitudinal study of children aged 8 to 12 years old, in which he an

Jet lag affects up to 95 percent of the millions of U.S. travelers who fly across time zones each year, generally leaving them fatigued, lacking in concentration and feeling unwell overall. Medical experts offer a list of strategies to minimize its sympto

How neuroscience could determine your mental health treatment

Now, in a study published in Neuron, Stanford neuroscientist Ivan Soltesz, PhD, and his colleagues may have shown a way to enhance marijuana’s medical virtues by countering some of its troubling side effects.

A breakthrough technology from neuroscience might allow blind people to see a monochromatic world.

Biochemist Peter Kim and bioengineer Scott Delp have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Kim is now one of only 20 people who are members of all three national academies.

Keith Humphreys is a professor of psychiatry and director of mental health policy at Stanford University.

As director of Stanford Bio-X, Carla Shatz, PhD, not only supports campus-wide interdisciplinary research efforts, but her own research serves as an example of how teams can work in collaboration.

Short flashes of light at night are more effective than using continuous light as therapy to prevent disruptions in people’s circadian rhythms, according to researchers.

Sighing is a long, deep involuntary inhalation accompanying sensations of yearning, sadness, relief, boredom, exhaustion, or exasperation. Fewer of us know that the typical person also sighs spontaneously about every five minutes or so.