Media Coverage
Feb 12 2018 | KQED - npr
The average adult checks their phone 50 to 300 times each day, and smartphones use psychological tricks that encourage our continued high usage — some of the same tricks slot machines use to hook gamblers.
Feb 8 2018 | CNBC - Make It
Schools across the country should dust off their "If you believe it, you can achieve it" posters, because scientists from Stanford University have discovered the brain pathway that directly links a positive attitude with achievement.
Feb 6 2018 | Vilcek Foundation
Perseverance might well be Sergiu Pasca’s middle name. The first in his family to attend college, Pasca, now an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, has secured a place on the international neuroscience stage through sheer force of will.
Feb 4 2018 | KQED - NPR
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with virtual reality researcher Jeremy Bailenson about his new book Experience on Demand. And she also tries some VR herself.
Feb 2 2018 | The Mercury News
Sergiu P. Pasca uses models of the human brain, created through cellular reprogramming technology, to explore the biological underpinnings of brain disease.
Jan 30 2018 | The Mercury News
An elite team of computer scientists and medical experts from Google and three major U.S. universities believe they’ve found the best way yet to predict whether a hospitalized patient will end up leaving via the front doors or the loading dock at the morgue.
Jan 25 2018 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Sexual harassment can profoundly affect a victim’s health, both immediately and in the long term.
Jan 25 2018 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
An ongoing project aims to understand how brain cells regulate their outgoing signals. The lab’s research specifically focuses on a brain structure called the thalamus and its connections — via nerve cells — to the cortex.
Jan 24 2018 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Using MRI brain scans in elementary school students, research showed that a better attitude toward math was linked to better function of the hippocampus — an important memory center in the brain — while the children did arithmetic problems.
Jan 24 2018 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Ischemic strokes account for about 85 percent of the roughly 750,000 strokes suffered annually in the United States, Stanford neurologist Greg Albers, MD, said.
