A California Start-Up Wants to Cure Alzheimer's With Youthful Blood
Alkahest is performing patient trials to see if injecting plasma into Alzheimer's patients can mitigate the effects of the disease.
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How Childhood Trauma Adversely Affects Decision-Making
New research shows that those who suffered significant trauma at a young age are unable to correctly consider risk as adults.
'The Stanford Prison Experiment': A Thriller About Psychological Methodology
Inside the claustrophobic, ethically dubious world of The Stanford Prison Experiment.
Stanford University Is Dying
You go where you know. You went to the wrong college and spent too much money.
The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The Philosopher Applying Kant and Plato to Contemporary Computer Science
We canvassed the world of the social and behavioral sciences, looking for rising stars whose careers promise to make a lasting mark. We'll be profiling the top 30 throughout the month of April.
The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The Greco-Roman History Devotee Who Believes Running for Office Should Be Easier
We canvassed the world of the social and behavioral sciences, looking for rising stars whose careers promise to make a lasting mark. We'll be profiling the top 30 throughout the month of April.
Genes Affect Our Behavior, but So Does the Environment
Despite the recent discovery of the "blonde gene," environmental differences and genetic effects remain inextricably linked.
Brain-Scan Lie Detectors Just Don’t Work
Perpetrators can suppress “crime memories,” study finds.
Making It Personal: Geneticist Michael Snyder Puts a Face on Personalized Medicine
The single participant in a groundbreaking—and controversial—study is forcing clinicians to confront the thorny ethical issues surrounding the sequencing of individual genomes to offer a glimpse at what the future of medicine may look like.