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 …
Author: Bruce Goldman
Correcting a forebrain signaling imbalance reverses autistic symptoms in mice
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 …
Blood test: Scientists crack code of chronic fatigue syndrome’s inflammatory underpinnings
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 …
The mouse that didn’t roar: Dormitory housing defuses hardwired male territorial aggression
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 …
Progress in search for vaccine providing broad immunity to scourge of developing-world infants
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 …
Addiction policies should accord with neuroscience, Stanford researchers argue
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 …
The soul of a souped-up machine: Workhorse eye-scanning device can do virtual biopsies
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 …
To debug your gut (and maybe your brain, too), make nice to the bugs that live inside it
Each of us is carrying about 100 trillion microbes in our gut. They're tiny and squirmy, but if you could line them all up end …
Meet the glucose-guzzling immune cells behind coronary heart disease and, it turns out, shingles
As if they didn't have enough to worry about, people with coronary artery disease -- the industrialized world's number-one killer -- are more vulnerable to …
Inside the heads of men and women: A look at sex-based cognitive differences
I first began ruminating on what would eventually become my just-published Stanford Medicine magazine article, "Two Minds: The Cognitive Differences between Men and Women," in 2013, when I attended an …
Karl Deisseroth wins 4-million-euro Fresenius Research Prize
Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, is an inquisitive neuroscientist, innovative bioengineer and practicing psychiatrist. In his push to determine which neural circuits are jamming up to …
Drug for psoriatic arthritis shows promise in large late-stage clinical trial
One in every 200 people in the developed world suffer from an inflammatory autoimmune condition called psoriatic arthritis. For too many of these people, standard …
Price of protection: Immune-gene version, great at combating leprosy, is not without drawbacks
Leprosy begins with a bacterial infection and, after five to 20 symptom-free years, can end in severe nerve, skin, vision and respiratory-tract damage and limb …
Brain in a bottle? Not quite, but watching the human brain develop in a dish is a big first step
This striking image captures nerve cells (in green) migrating from one region of the human forebrain into another region -- in laboratory glassware. This process recapitulates …
Stanford researchers use color-coding to pinpoint locations of gut-bacterial strains
In a mouse study published today in Cell, Stanford microbiologist Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, and his colleagues have been able to simultaneously visualize multiple bacterial strains in lab …
Protein in human umbilical cord blood propels old mice’s sputtering memory to new highs
Human umbilical cord blood can rejuvenate learning and memory in older mice, according to a study led by Stanford neuroscientists Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, and Joe Castellano, …