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Tom Clandinin, PhD, a Stanford professor of neurobiology, chose neuroscience: “Because the brain is the most complicated organ in the body, I became excited about how it develops,” he says in this video.

Life while facing death

Now, in a study published in Neuron, Stanford neuroscientist Ivan Soltesz, PhD, and his colleagues may have shown a way to enhance marijuana’s medical virtues by countering some of its troubling side effects.

Have you ever wondered how our immune system generates the dizzying array of antibodies needed to recognize foreign invaders? They do so in part by using an ingenious combinatorial trick – a sleight of genetics that relies on the random rearrangement of discrete stretches of DNA to create as many...

Stanford researchers have identified and suppressed the neural pathway responsible for the opiate withdrawal symptoms in opiate-addicted mice

As director of Stanford Bio-X, Carla Shatz, PhD, not only supports campus-wide interdisciplinary research efforts, but her own research serves as an example of how teams can work in collaboration.

Neuroscience Health Center includes clinic for memory disorders

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a former faculty member, named university's 11th president

On Thursday, Stanford University named Marc Tessier-Lavigne its 11th president. The first of his family to graduate college, the neuroscientist and former Rhodes Scholar will succeed current Stanford head John Hennessy, who is departing after 16 years in the role.