NIH funds new Alzheimer’s Research Center at School of Medicine Chetana Ramaiyer July 29, 2015 0 Comments Recently, the National Institute of Health (NIH) gave Stanford the final notice of a $7.3 million award to fund an Alzheimer’s Research Center, one of more than two dozen centers that have been... Read More »
The case for young adult literature Mina Shah April 21, 2015 0 Comments YA in particular is helpful for our age group in accomplishing this, because the primary concerns of the young adults in the novels are closer to our own than some things we find in adult literature. Read More »
StanShakes stages a female-centric, modern take on ‘Lear’ Noemi Berkowitz February 23, 2015 0 Comments How can college-age students tackle a tragedy about an elderly King descending into madness? The Stanford Shakespeare Company’s (StanShakes) production, directed by Kevin Heller ‘16, does so by... Read More »
‘Still Alice,’ a moving portrait of an Alzheimer’s patient Madelyne Xiao January 16, 2015 0 Comments “Still Alice,” the film adaptation of the novel by Lisa Genova, details Howland’s mental decline following her diagnosis with early onset Alzheimer’s. Read More »
The trouble with moral culpability Chi Ling Chan September 23, 2014 0 Comments As always, the leap from the is to the ought is never an easy one to make, but my sense is that retributive justice or the idea of “just desert”deserves way less currency than it has now. In place... Read More »
Infusions of young blood revitalize old mice’s brain Marshall Watkins May 8, 2014 0 Comments Researchers from the School of Medicine have found that the blood of young mice may have a restorative effect on the mental capabilities of older mice, a discovery that could open up new therapeutic... Read More »
Blood transfer shows signs of age effect reversal in mice The Daily News Staff October 22, 2012 0 Comments School of Medicine researcher Saul Villeda found that that injection of blood from young mice into older mice reversed certain aging effects. Read More »
Scholars delve into mental states The Daily News Staff May 26, 2011 0 Comments Researchers at the School of Medicine are one step closer to unlocking the secrets of the brain. Michael Greicius, assistant professor of neurology, and his colleagues say that mental states can be... Read More »