In the News
for the week of March 31, 2025
MSNScientists studied late sleepers for 8 years and this is what they found
If you think by having night owl behaviour consistently you are doing good to your health, you are wrong. Jamie Zeitzer, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, discusses a large scale study where over 70,000 people were examined for over 8 years and what it revealed. The findings of the study were published in the Psychiatry Research journal.
Scope Blog - Stanford MedicineFive things to know about GLP-1s and addiction
Anna Lembke, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, unpacks the potential of FDA-approved weight-reducing GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic as tools in treating addiction.
The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and PerspectivesOrganoids and assembloids offer a new window into human brain
These sophisticated 3D cultures reveal previously inaccessible stages of human brain development and enable the systematic study of disease genes. Sergiu Pasca, Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program, writes this article.
KQEDCan AI Replace Your Therapist? The Benefits, Risks and Unsettling Truths | KQED
AI therapy chatbots offer 24/7 mental health support, but what happens when they get it wrong? Ehsan Adeli, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, provides comment.