Professor Nita Farahany, Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke Law School, presents several of the more salient issues that arise from the intersection of law and neuroscience. Recent scientific progress has dramatically advanced our understanding of the biological, neurological and environmental contributions to normal and deviant human behavior. Behavioral scientists have moved beyond purely descriptive scientific accounts to predictive ones by linking genetic and neurological...

Professor Carla Shatz, Professor of Biology and of Neurobiology and the Director of Bio-X at Stanford University, discusses research results that show that Major Histocompatability Class I and PirB genes, thought previously to function only in immunity, act at neuronal synapses to limit how much - or how quickly - synapse strength changes in response to new experience. Changes in their function could contribute to developmental disorders such as Schizophrenia, and even to the synapse loss in...

Opening Remarks delivered by William Newsome, Director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute, and Ann Arvin, Vice Provost and Dean of Research for Stanford University, at the Inaugural Symposium of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.

Professor John Rogers, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, discusses how the successful integration of optoelectronic and microfluidic systems with the brain has the potential to accelerate basic scientific discoveries and their translation into clinically relevant technologies. Professor Rogers’ research includes fundamental and applied aspects of materials for unusual electronic and photonic devices, with an emphasis on bio-integrated and bio-inspired...

Dr. Bruce Rosen, Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, discusses how functional imaging of the human brain is evolving, allowing neuroscientists to bridge the gap between systems-level human imaging and circuit-level mechanistic neural models, and enhancing our ability to explore and better understand human neuroscience and human disease.

Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), discusses how a deeper understanding of how the human brain functions will yield new approaches to diagnostics and therapeutics, bending the curve for millions affected by mental disorders.