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Jun 5 2017 | Stanford News
Professors Jennifer Eberhardt and Dan Jurafsky along with other Stanford researchers detected racial disparities in police officers’ speech after analyzing more than 100 hours of body camera footage from Oakland Police.
Jun 1 2017 | Stanford News
New research by Stanford psychologists analyzes cultural effects on giving. They find that people are willing to offer more money to others who display similar emotional expressions and that those expressions are even more powerful factors than race or sex.
Jun 1 2017 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
The Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer will be honored for three distinct contributions to the medical field: optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry and research into depression.
May 30 2017 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
The philanthropic gift creates a center to help accelerate translational research, recruit faculty and train the next generation of leaders in vision science.
May 24 2017 | Stanford Medicine
One rainy day in October 2007, Dennis Degray was taking out the trash when he slipped, fell and landed on his chin. He severely injured his spinal cord, becoming paralyzed from the neck down. “I’ve got nothing going on below the collarbones,” he says.
May 24 2017 | Stanford Medicine
Ever wish you were one of those people who could quickly memorize the order of all the cards in a deck? You can be, according to researchers from the Stanford School of Medicine and from the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior in the Netherlands.
May 24 2017 | Stanford Medicine
A commercially available drug approved to treat opioid-induced constipation may also block two of the most problematic side effects of opioids: a growing tolerance to them and a paradoxical increased sensitivity to pain.
May 23 2017 | Stanford News
Stanford researchers found that children as young as 4 years old, under certain conditions, can discern “sins of omission” – misleading but technically accurate information.
