Stanford scientists, using only direct brain stimulation, reproduced both the brain dynamics and the behavioral response of mice taught to discriminate between two different images.
Noel Vest, PhD, hasn’t let his past experiences with addiction and incarceration keep him from a science career. He recently joined Stanford Medicine as a postdoctoral scholar in the Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab, focusing on research and public policy.
Researchers have found that brain patterns in sleeping zebrafish are similar to those of land vertebrates, suggesting that such sleep signatures developed before aquatic and land animals diverged.
The new Stanford Hospital, which is scheduled to open to patients in the fall, has received the go-ahead for Stanford Health Care to begin staffing and stocking the building while minor finishing work is completed.
Using in-game win probability techniques, Stanford researchers devised a way to predict a cancer patient’s outcome at any point during treatment. The approach could also inform treatment decisions.
The complexity can be overwhelming and, as a result, people often choose suboptimal plans that punish them with higher costs and create inefficient markets.
“In a world that encourages increasing specialization, hold on to that sense of being a student,” Stanford Provost Persis Drell told Stanford School of Medicine graduates.
Immune markers and pollutant levels in the blood indicate wildfire smoke may be more harmful to children’s health than smoke from a controlled burn, Stanford researchers found.
Scientists hook fluorescent tags onto molecules to see how they keep cells alive. Such tags used to burn out quickly. Now they glow longer, revealing more about how life works.
