News and Press Releases
May 21 2015 | Stanford Report
Stanford psychologist Emma Seppala says that promoting a culture of trust – rather than fear – encourages collaboration and builds a creative workplace.
May 19 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
The funding will allow Joanna Wysocka to continue exploring the earliest steps of human development and aid Krishna Shenoy’s efforts to develop brain-machine interfaces.
May 18 2015 | BeWell@Stanford
Dr. Emmanuel Mignot is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine. While he is internationally recognized for discovering the cause of narcolepsy, a disorder caused by hypocretin (orexin) cell loss, Dr....
May 18 2015 | Neuwrite West
“What would happen if we had too many neurons in our brain?”
May 17 2015 | Neuwrite West
The brain is a gas-guzzler. Weighing in at only 2% of the mass of your body, the brain consumes over 20% of the body’s energy.
May 7 2015 | Stanford Report
Stanford psychologist Kelly McGonigal talks about new research indicating that stress can make us stronger, smarter and happier – if we learn how to open our minds to it.
May 5 2015 | Stanford News
A new algorithm enables a moment-by-moment analysis of brain activity each time a laboratory monkey reaches this way or that during an experiment. It's like reading the monkey's mind.
May 4 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
A multicenter study has identified an FDA-approved medication that prolongs survival in mice with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a brain tumor that now lacks chemotherapy treatments.
May 1 2015
Two Stanford University faculty members developing techniques for monitoring neurons as they fire signals throughout the brain got a boost in the first round of funding by California’s neuroscience research grants program, Cal-BRAIN.
May 1 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
Lisa Giocomo always loved biology, but took a detour through medicine and psychology on her way to becoming a neurobiologist. She studies grid cells, the brain’s navigation system, to determine how the brain encodes spatial information.
