News and Press Releases
Jul 10 2015 | TEDxStanford
By adapting neuroeconomics – the study of financial decision making in the brain – to environmental applications, Nik Sawe’s research explores how people process information while they are making environmental decisions. Whether it is the consumer response to green labeling or how we value natural...
Jul 6 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
A new Stanford-based center will receive nearly $7.3 million in funding over a five-year period to conduct interdisciplinary research on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.
Jul 6 2015 | Stanford News
A new study shows that students who use symmetry to learn about numbers tap into critical brain circuits. The approach appears promising in improving math skills in general.
Jun 30 2015 | Stanford News
Study finds that walking in nature yields measurable mental benefits and may reduce risk of depression.
Jun 23 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
New research involving people diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease sheds light on how individual neurons control muscle movement in humans — and could help in the development of better brain-controlled prosthetic devices.
Jun 22 2015 | Stanford Report
A team of Bio-X scientists applied microscopy know-how to a long-standing theory in neuroscience: if brain connections called synapses store memories, those synapses should last as long as the memories themselves. It turns out they do, as Mark Schnitzer was able to show.
Jun 19 2015 | Stanford News - Building a Brain - Step 3
When people are confronted with an unknown piece of electronics, one way they can figure out how it works and what it does is to twiddle with the knobs and switches. That's been hard to do with the slick, knob-less surface of the brain.
Jun 19 2015 | Stanford News - Building a Brain - Step 5
The brain is a powerful natural computer, processing millions of signals on the power of nothing more than a sandwich. To reverse-engineer it, you need to mimic that speed and efficiency.
Jun 19 2015 | Stanford News - Building a Brain - Step 2
The neurons in our brains use electrical activity to relay information. A reverse-engineered brain must recreate these processes, but first scientists need to understand them.
Jun 19 2015 | Stanford News - Building a Brain - Step 4
Understanding the brain's mechanics isn't enough to reverse-engineer a functional copy. What's needed is a theory of how those pieces add up to a human being.
