News and Press Releases
May 29 2015 | BeWell@Stanford
BeWell spoke with Dr. Stuart Brown, founder and president of the National Institute For Play, about how play lights up your brain, improves your mood and connects you to the world.
May 29 2015 | Insights by Stanford Business
Is classic research on decision-making still relevant today?
May 28 2015 | Stanford News Services
Stanford Professor Bruce McCandliss found that beginning readers who focus on letter-sound relationships, or phonics, increase activity in the area of their brains best wired for reading.
May 28 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
A new study is the first to directly implicate the cerebellum in the creative process. As for the brain’s higher-level executive-control centers? Not so much.
May 26 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
A key message from Stanford’s annual big data conference was that realizing the potential of precision health means sharing massive amounts of medical and behavioral data.
May 25 2015 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
Researchers have figured out how to create spheres of neuronal cells resembling the cerebral cortex, making functional human brain tissue available for the first time to study neuropsychiatric diseases such as autism and schizophrenia.
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 21 2015 | Neurotalk S4E14: Nirao Shah
Nirao Shah, Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy at UCSF, speaks about neural crest stem cells, circuits underlying sexual dimorphism, and his first exposure to research in India.
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....
