Media Coverage
Oct 16 2015 | The Washington Post
Scientists at Stanford have developed a flexible skin-like material that can has the ability to "feel" touch.
Oct 9 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
It’s worth a look at the Storify page to get a sense of the breadth of work encompassed under the banner of neuroscience.
Oct 9 2015 | Society for Neuroscience
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Donald B. Lindsley Prize to Matthew Lovett-Barron, PhD, of Stanford University. Supported by The Grass Foundation, the prize recognizes an outstanding PhD thesis in the area of general behavioral neuroscience.
Oct 7 2015 | Inside Higher Ed
Numerous institutions have devoted significant resources to large-scale projects seeking to address major challenges or big ideas in recent years.
Oct 1 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Alcoholism is an immense national and international health problem. Alcoholism’s terrific toll is better sighted on city streets than in celluloid skyscraper scenarios.
Oct 1 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
A new Stanford study, publishing today in Nature Communications, sheds light on how to help children with math learning disabilities.
Sep 24 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
For the first time, researchers have created a digital reconstruction of part of a mammalian cerebral cortex — the “rind” of the brain, about two to three dimes thick, that plays a central role in functions like memory, thought, language and consciousness.
Sep 22 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Chronic pain limits the lives of an estimated 100 million people in one way or another and costs our country half a trillion dollars per year, according to Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Pain Medicine.
Sep 15 2015 | The Daily Beast
Researchers at Stanford have created electronic skin that not only functions like human skin, but can change color.
Sep 9 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Kids who suffer from anxiety about doing math problems can find relief in a program of one-on-one tutoring, which not only improves their math skills but also fixes abnormal responses in the fear circuits in their brains.
Sep 4 2015 | Second Nexus
By year’s end, we may learn whether injecting old people with blood from young people can improve their memory and even reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
Sep 2 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Is a patient’s depression or anger caused by his or her inability to do physical things or is it perhaps because pain can limit social relationships?
Sep 1 2015 | The Society for Neuroscience
The human visual system is extremely complex, but it makes repeated use of some tricks that can be exploited to produce interesting visual illusions. With even a high-level understanding of how the brain approaches some common difficulties in perception, we can predict where its methods will fail.
Aug 26 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease that can be inherited among families. ALS more often occurs sporadically.
Aug 18 2015 | Stanford Medicine -Scope
Mathematical skills are crucial in our increasingly technological society, and new data show which brain features forecast future growth in math abilities
Aug 14 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Ongoing research conducted by Eric Kandel has helped scientists better understand the basic molecular mechanisms underlying learning and memory.
Aug 5 2015 | The Guardian
A series of experiments has produced incredible results by giving young blood to old mice. Now the findings are being tested on humans. Ian Sample meets the scientists whose research could transform our lives.
Jul 14 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Chronic fatigue syndrome affects between 836,000 to 2.5 million people in the United States, and 25 percent of them are confined to their bed.
Jul 8 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Eating disorders often begin in the teenage years, but, surprisingly, the medical community long lacked a teen-specific set of guidelines for treating these serious illnesses.
