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Mar 5 2018 | Stanford Medicine - News
More than 1 in 68 children are living with some form of autism, and each diagnosis has a ripple effect on families, schools and medical professionals who support those individuals. Stanford experts have been part of the teams not only diagnosing and treating the condition, but also trying to...
Mar 5 2018 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
Through genome editing, scientists at Stanford have pinpointed genes that reveal mechanistic details of ALS and may even protect against the degeneration of neurons.
Mar 2 2018 | Stanford Medicine
Engineers, biologists and doctors focus on a win
Mar 2 2018 | Stanford Medicine
Tiny lab-grown blobs could aid understanding of psychiatric and neurological disease
Feb 26 2018 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
The winter issue of Stanford Medicine magazine highlights science that pushes boundaries to save lives and considers ethical questions that are a fundamental part of research.
Stanford study shows that when resources are limited, infants will favor group loyalty over fairness
Feb 26 2018 | Stanford Medicine - News
Stanford scholar Lin Bian found that in times of plenty infants expect fair distribution of goodies like toys or cookies. But when resources are scarce, infants expect people to favor their own social group.
Feb 26 2018 | NeuWrite West
Injustice and inequality are everywhere. Even the evidence-based world of academic science is not immune.
Feb 23 2018 | Stanford Medicine - News
A new study finds that young children’s brains have not yet fully developed the vision circuits they need to understand words and recognize faces, a finding that could help in understanding how children learn to read.
Feb 23 2018 | Stanford News - The Dish
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a Palo Alto-based philanthropic organization, has launched a major research effort to inject fresh energy, ideas and talent into understanding the basic biology of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic...
Feb 22 2018 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
Mentally running through a routine improves performance, but how that works isn’t clear. Now, a new tool — brain-machine interface — suggests the answer lies in how our brains prepare for action.
