That voice in the back of your head that warns you off a risky decision? Stanford researchers have identified the rodent equivalent and turned up its volume, using an incredible new tool that allows scientists to observe and manipulate specific cells in the brain.
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is one of the first hospitals in the country to begin implementing distraction-based VR therapy within every patient unit.
“I am currently a high school junior and would like to pursue neuroscience and/or robotics in college, perhaps with some sort of link to psychology or artificial intelligence. There is no course at my high school which would lead to such studies, so I’m designing an independent study for next year...
Harnessing a stem-cell-activating protein may help people recover faster from surgery or other trauma, according to Thomas Rando, MD, PhD, professor of neurology and neurological sciences and his Stanford colleagues.