Photobiomodulation, the use of light waves to change human biology, has boomed in recent years for all kinds of purposes, at medical clinics and at home. We wanted to know what the science says - and doesn't say.| News Center
Artificial intelligence chatbots designed to act like friends should not be used by children and teens, Stanford Medicine psychiatrist Nina Vasan says.| News Center
Stanford Medicine researchers used high doses of magnetic stimulation, delivered on an accelerated timeline and targeted to individual neurocircuitry, to treat patients with severe depression.| News Center
James (Jim) R. Doty, MD, FACS, FICS, FAANS, a beloved member of the Stanford Neurosurgery family, and the founder and director of the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research (CCARE), passed away on July 16, 2025.| Neurosurgery
Providing quality care at the bedside relies not only on a physician’s medical knowledge, technical skills and compassionate demeanor, but also on respect for a patient’s cultural, racial and ethnic background.| Stanford Medicine 25
Physical therapy within three months of a musculoskeletal pain diagnosis reduced patients' risk of long-term opioid use by about 10 percent, according to a study by researchers at Stanford and Duke.| News Center
Stanford Medicine integrates a premier medical school with world-class hospitals to advance human health.| Stanford Medicine
Analyzing a national cancer database, researchers find a bump in diagnoses at 65, suggesting that many wait for Medicare to kick in before they seek care.| News Center
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.| News Center
A Stanford clinical science summer program featuring hands-on technology and medicine that provides medical internships for high school students.| Stanford Anesthesia Summer Institute
By scanning the brains of subjects while they were hypnotized, researchers at the School of Medicine were able to see the neural changes associated with hypnosis.| News Center
Maya Adam is the director of health media innovation and a clinical associate professor in the department of pediatrics at the Stanford School of Medicine. She also serves as faculty lead for the Global Health Media Innovation Lab and, since 2023, she is associate director for the Center for Digital Health at Stanford. Adam creates and evaluates innovative approaches to scalable, video-based global health messaging. She received her undergraduate degree in human biology from Stanford, her med...| Stanford Medicine
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.| News Center
Stanford Medicine researchers did not find a connection between the age children acquired their first cell phone and their sleep patterns, depression symptoms or grades.| News Center
A research project at Stanford University's School of Medicine to find genes that contribute to depression.| Genetics of Brain Function
