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Jul 7 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
The researchers are using recent findings from neuroscience to explore how people learn core concepts in math and science.
Jul 7 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Sufferers of Alice in Wonderland syndrome, a neurological disorder named in 1955, experience distortions of proportions.
Jul 6 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Researchers found women with epilepsy had a risk of 80 deaths per 100,000 pregnancies, more than 10 times higher than the risk of 6 deaths per 100,000 pregnancies faced by other women.
Jun 30 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Barry Kerzin, Physician-monk leads Stanford doctors in meditation It made sense because Kerzin, who provides medical care to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and is also a Buddhist monk, had just spent time explaining the central ideas of mindfulness meditation and highlighting the results from various...
Jun 30 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Walking is good for your health. But walking somewhere natural is even better, according to a new Stanford-led study.
Jun 25 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Initially, Stephen Baccus, PhD, wanted to understand how computers work. It didn’t take him very long to discover that the snazziest computer around is the human brain.
Jun 23 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Rather than sending out signals with parceled bits of information about the direction and size of movement, Shenoy’s team found that groups of neurons fired in rhythmic patterns to get muscles to act.
Jun 23 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Have you seen the movie “Inside Out” yet? The movie takes place inside the brain of an 11-year-old girl, Riley, with different characters playing the role of various emotions (joy, anger, sadness, etc.).
Jun 22 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
If you find yourself forgetting information you have only your synapses to blame. These connections between neurons are what hold on to memories.
Jun 19 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
How do we reverse-engineer the most mysterious organ?
Jun 12 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
A report released last week by Alzheimer’s Disease International calls attention to the disproportionate effects of dementia on women worldwide.
Jun 10 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Third-year doctoral student Russell Toll is one of many who is doing research in these areas, and he brings a unique perspective to his work: He’s both a bioengineer and an Army combat veteran.
Jun 8 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Matthieu Ricard, PhD, is often referred to as the “happiest man in the world,” after he participated in a series of research studies several years ago on the effects of meditation on the brain. MRI scans revealed that the left pre-frontal cortex of his brain, which is associated with happiness,...
Jun 6 2015 | LA Times
Humans have been around for a couple hundred thousand years, by most calculations. When you consider modern, Westernized humans in that context, we come off as pretty strange in our social interactions.
Jun 4 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Imagine the usefulness of knowing if someone is drawing on a memory or experiencing something for the first time. “No, officer, I’ve never seen that person before.”
Jun 3 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
For years, early childhood teachers have seen that students taught to read using a phonics approach — sounding out the letters in each word — tended to become better readers than those taught to recognize whole words by sight.
Jun 2 2015 | Palo Alto Online
Carla Shatz's work has aided understanding of disorders such as autism, Alzheimer's
May 28 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
How often does the accountant turn out to be the life of the party? How often do the Nike sneakers, rather than the Armani suits, call the shots? Yet that may be the case when it comes to – of all things! – creativity.
May 28 2015 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
For Jennifer Raymond, PhD, associate professor of neurobiology, the decision to devote her career to deciphering how the brain operates was, well, a no-brainer.
May 27 2015 | The New York Times
On a small darkened platform a handful of fruit flies wander aimlessly. There is a brief flash of light and a robotic arm darts downward, precisely targeting a fly’s thorax, a moving target roughly the size of a pinhead.
