Media Coverage
Dec 14 2015 | Jerry McNerney Blog
The directors at Stanford and the Palo Alto VA have a significant ask: They are facing mountains of red tape in transferring patient information from the VA to Stanford, where significant resources can be brought to bear in treating the veteran community.
Dec 10 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Part of the brain could act like a radio, with different stations operating at different frequencies, playing different kinds of music and variously attracting or repelling different “listening audiences.
Dec 10 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Coffee changes the brain’s activity.
Dec 9 2015 | Zuora.com
Baba Shiv is the Sanwa Bank, Ltd., Professor of Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research expertise is in the area of neuroeconomics, with specific emphasis on the role of neural structures related to emotion and motivation in shaping decisions and experiences.
Dec 7 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
At Stanford, Rep. Jerry McNerney discusses life in Congress, science funding and the value of squash
Some neuroscience faculty, staff and students got a look behind the scenes of what it’s like to be a scientist in government on Friday from congressman Jerry McNerney, PhD.
Dec 3 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
One of the least understood lasting effects of cancer treatment is a cognitive deficit that some survivors describe as “chemobrain.”
Dec 3 2015 | Nature International weekly journal of science
Turquoise killifish genomes help to explain their 'live fast, die young' lifestyle.
Nov 30 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
In her study, Tsai and her colleagues examined whether cultural values could drive neural responses and preferences for different positive facial expressions – like excited versus calm faces…
Nov 26 2015 | Forbes
At least one study found that 99% of the deals out there really aren’t worth it and the frenzy may be waning due to changes in consumer behavior.
Nov 20 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
We shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves when we struggle to make positive health changes. In short, it’s not us – it’s a design flaw.
Nov 8 2015 | The New York Times
The richest awards in science were handed out Sunday night when the Breakthrough Prize organization presented a total of $21.9 million to physicists, mathematicians, life scientists and one talented high school student.
Nov 6 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Research in neuroscience, psychology, business and economics tells us that a plethora of influences can alter the decisions we make. The author explored some of these factors in a Worldview Stanford course and wrote about them in a Stanford story package, Decisions, Decisions. This post is the last...
Nov 5 2015 | AP The Big Story
Dr. Sergiu Pasca, a neuroscientist, used to envy cancer specialists. They could get their hands on tumors for research, while Pasca could not directly study key portions of a living brain.
Nov 2 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Research in neuroscience, psychology, business and economics tells us that a plethora of influences can alter the decisions we make. The author explored some of these factors in a Worldview Stanford course and wrote about them in a Stanford story package, Decisions, Decisions. This post is part of...
Oct 29 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Research in neuroscience, psychology, business and economics tells us that a plethora of influences can alter the decisions we make. The author explored some of these factors in a Worldview Stanford course and wrote about them in a Stanford story package, Decisions, Decisions. This post is part of...
Oct 27 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Research in neuroscience, psychology, business and economics tells us that a plethora of influences can alter the decisions we make. The author explored some of these factors in a Worldview Stanford course and wrote about them in a Stanford story package, Decisions, Decisions. This post is part of...
Oct 22 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Research in neuroscience, psychology, business and economics tells us that a plethora of influences can alter the decisions we make. The author explored some of these factors in a Worldview Stanford course and wrote about them in a Stanford story package, Decisions, Decisions. This post is part of...
Oct 21 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
There has to be some kind of switch in your brain that unconsciously transitions your exertions from one set of muscle groups to the other set. (Caution: Do not think about this while you’re walking. You’ll trip.)
Oct 20 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Research in neuroscience, psychology, business and economics tells us that a plethora of influences can alter the decisions we make. The author explored some of these factors in a Worldview Stanford course and wrote about them in a Stanford story package, Decisions, Decisions. This post is part of...
Oct 16 2015 | RT Question More
Breakthrough optogenetics research has made a huge leap in developing synthetic skin capable of sensing. The prototype can currently distinguish pressure, but the decade-long Stanford research is far from over.
