Stanford neuroscientist Ben Barres devoted his career to studying glial cells, which play a significant, but previously undervalued, role in the brain.
Just imagine if you could predict and prevent a burst of binge eating or alcohol intake, a heroin injection, a sudden bout of uncontrolled rage or …
It's not every day that early-stage research at Stanford's School of Medicine generates its own New Yorker cartoon. But a few years ago, news of a …
A study in Cell from the lab of Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, demonstrates a new technology's power — it helped …
The jury’s still out on rock ’n’ roll. But the link between sex and at least one drug, marijuana, has been confirmed. According to the …
Question: What is it that makes some people the life of the party, others recluses and still others shoulder-shruggingly indifferent to the delights of social …
Back in Wisconsin, where I grew up, there was a lot to be afraid of. We feared ice. Cow dung. Running out of cheese. Losing …
The average age of a newborn's dad has crept steadily upwards in the United States, from 27.4 years old in 1972 to 30.9 in 2015. …
The Hadza, a small group of hunter-gatherers inhabiting Tanzania’s Rift Valley, number just over 1,000 people, fewer than 200 of whom still adhere to the traditional …
In a new study in Neuron, Stanford researchers have used a revolutionary 3-D culture technique to nurse a very slowly developing set of brain cells known …
A new study, conducted by Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and inventor Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, and colleagues and published in Science Translational Medicine, suggests that key features …
A new study led by Stanford chronic fatigue syndrome expert Jose Montoya, MD, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has linked …
Stanford neuroscientist Nirao Shah, PhD, has made a career out of focusing on behaviors (such as mating, aggression and nurturing offspring) that innately differ between …
A vaccine is, in essence, a "virtual-reality mug shot" that spurs the immune system to (among other things) generate antibodies that gum up whatever pathogen …
In "Neuroscience of Need: Understanding the Addicted Mind," an article I wrote for Stanford Medicine magazine a few years ago, I tried to describe the hijacked brain …
A minor tweak to a major workhorse eye-scanning technology, described in a Nature Communications study, could lead to “virtual biopsies:" visualizing tissue in 3D at microscope-quality resolution, without having …
