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A study in mice finds that white matter — the tissue that transmits messages around the brain — shows the greatest changes as the animals age.

Researchers have identified a mechanism underlying fragmented sleep with older age, paving the way for potential drug therapies.

A common genetic deletion boosts the risk for schizophrenia by 30-fold. Generating nerve cells from people with the deletion has showed Stanford researchers why.

Pain sensation and the emotional experience of pain are not the same, and now, in mice, scientists at Stanford have found the neurons responsible for the latter.