News and Press Releases
Sep 11 2015 | Stanford News
Brain scans reveal that negative emotional responses can powerfully drive decisions to protect environmental resources.
Sep 8 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
Individualized math lessons improved kids’ arithmetic performance and made them feel more comfortable with the subject.
Sep 4 2015 | Stanford News
Led by Associate Professor Fei-Fei Li, the new SAIL-Toyota Center for AI Research will focus on teaching computers to see and make critical decisions about how to interact with the world. At the outset, research will address intelligent robotics and autonomous cars.
Sep 3 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
A study of about 800 children with autism found gender differences in a core feature of the disorder, as well as in the youngsters’ brain structures.
Aug 31 2015 | Stanford News
As scientists zero in on the skull motions that can cause concussions, David Camarillo's lab has found that many commercially available sensors worn by athletes to gather this data are prone to significant error.
Aug 27 2015
The Stanford Neurosciences Institute awarded their first round of Seed Grants, funding five projects, each of which brings together two or more faculty members to solve problems within the field of neuroscience.
Aug 26 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
A mutation linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis interferes with the transport of proteins in and out of a cell’s nucleus. Targeting this pathway with drugs or therapies may one day help patients with neurodegenerative disease.
Aug 20 2015 | Stanford News
Stanford psychologists found that applicants for microloans are more likely to win approval if the photograph they send along with the application evokes a positive emotional response.
Aug 20 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
Scientists found that when two protein structures in the brain join up, they act as an amplifier for a slight increase in calcium concentration, triggering a gunshot-like release of neurotransmitters from one neuron to another.
Aug 18 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
Gray matter volume and connections between several brain regions better forecast 8-year-olds’ acquisition of math skills than their performance on standard math tests.
