News and Press Releases
Nov 8 2013 | Stanford Report
Using brain recordings and a computer model, an interdisciplinary team confounds the conventional wisdom about how the brain sorts out relevant versus irrelevant sensory inputs in making choices.
Nov 4 2013 | Stanford Report
Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to quantify brain tissue volume, a critical measurement of the progression of multiple sclerosis and other diseases.
Nov 2 2013
At Stanford+Connects in Atlanta, Professor Bill Newsome, aka "Bill the Brain Guy," shared three stories about interdisciplinary neuroscience and its impact on health, law and business. Tune in for a taste of how brain science will shape our future.
Oct 24 2013 | Inside Stanford Medicine
In yet another coup for a research concept known as “big data,” researchers at the Stanford have developed a computerized algorithm to understand the complex and rapid choreography of hundreds of proteins that interact in mindboggling combinations to govern how genes are flipped on and off within a...
Oct 18 2013 | Stanford Report
The Stanford 2013 Roundtable, "Are You Happy Now? The New Science of Happiness and Wellbeing," convened a panel of psychologists, neuroscientists and business experts to discuss what makes people happy. Their message: Pursuing meaning in one's life is the key to establishing sustained happiness.
Oct 15 2013 | Inside Stanford Medicine
Joshua Elias, assistant professor of chemical and systems biology, has been awarded a three-year, $1 million grant by the W.M. Keck Foundation to fund a pioneering approach to deciphering the signals that cancer cells present to the immune system.
Sep 30 2013 | Inside Stanford Medicine
Eight Stanford University scientists, including SNI Affiliates Michael Lin, Thomas Rando, and Tony Wyss-Coray, have received more than $17 million from the National Institutes of Health that will enable them to pursue innovative research in biomedicine.
Sep 29 2013 | NeuWrite West Blog
Graduate student Astra Bryant writes for the Neuwrite West blog an update on the BRAIN initiative, co-led by SNI director William Newsome.
Sep 26 2013 | Stanford Report
Unprecedented feat points toward a new generation of energy-efficient electronics.
Sep 25 2013 | Inside Stanford Medicine
Researchers have identified several large-scale neural systems in the brain that appear to be impaired by fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited intellectual disability. The findings could help scientists devise treatments for the disorder, which is caused by a gene mutation on the X...
