Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke’s book, Dopamine Nation, explains our brain chemistry's role in modern society's addiction to social media.
Stanford Medicine researchers are investigating new tactics to overcome cognitive loss, including that which occurs in Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers at Stanford are exploring using traditional marketing strategies to help increase COVID-19 vaccine acceptance.
A Stanford Medicine medical student speaks to the disparities in representation of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders in medicine.
In Stanford's Pandemic Puzzle virtual symposium, experts discuss medical and economic issues of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Families of young kids with ADHD should get parenting-skills therapy before other treatments, but this happens infrequently, a study found.
Four years after his death, possibly the greatest mystery famed neuroscientist Ben Barres ever sought to solve has become a bit less opaque.
Researchers have found that a phenomenon tied to animal size helps determine whether animals heal without scarring after burn injury.
This new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine explores scientific advances that are helping unlock the mysteries of the brain.
Stanford Medicine researchers found an element -- a prion -- that can control whether yeast cells and their progeny grow to large, or not.
Researchers argue that data from routine COVID-19 contact tracing and testing could help schools remain open.
During cardiac surgery, patients’ blood levels of a substance highly predictive of Alzheimer’s disease jumped more than 5-fold.
A common ovarian cancer evades detection by convincing nearby immune cells to treat it as a developing fetus.
Three of Stanford Medicine's Nobel laureates offer advice to future winners about hearing the news and what to expect next in their careers.
More than two hours of daily screen time was linked to lower IQ and behavioral issues in 6- and 7-year-olds born very prematurely.
A Stanford neuroscientist has led the development of a novel brain research tool for understanding diseases of brain development.
