Stanford Neurology & Neurological Sciences

12/05/2025

11/27/2025

This season, we’re grateful for every member of our Stanford Medicine community. Your curiosity, compassion and commitment power our mission every day — in our hospitals, clinics, classrooms, offices and labs. Thank you!

11/19/2025

Six-year-olds who were exposed prenatally to common antiseizure medications had normal verbal and cognitive abilities, a large, multisite study has found.

11/11/2025

Neurosurgeon takes a unique minimally invasive approach to stop debilitating seizures in a teenage boy.

10/31/2025

The Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley Stroke Center contributes to worldwide research for stroke prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

https://stan.md/4nYFmiK

10/30/2025

The Parkinson’s Story Exchange is an initiative that uses storytelling to increase empathy between Parkinson’s researchers and people affected by the condition. Founder Johanna O'Day, a PhD candidate in Bioengineering at Stanford, records stories in collaboration with StoryCorps.

https://stan.md/48V0fGQ

10/28/2025

Small cell lung cancer often metastasizes to the brain. A Stanford Medicine-led study shows the cancer cells form synapses with neurons, and signaling across these synapses encourages tumor growth.

10/03/2025

The October LiveLung Virtual meeting will feature Seema Nagpal, MD, Clinical Professor of Neurology at Stanford Health Care. Dr. Nagpal will present “Leptomeningeal Metastases,” and highlight this serious complication of cancer, share how it is diagnosed and treated, and highlight advances in treatment that are helping patients live longer and better.

This free virtual educational meeting, held on **Wednesday, October 8 at 9:00 am PST.**

Learn more and register:
https://www.livelung.org/meetings/virtual

10/03/2025

Over the past decade, cell therapies have successfully treated many patients with blood cancers, and now Stanford Medicine researchers are translating that success to autoimmune disease, including through a first-of-its-kind cell therapy trial for multiple sclerosis.

https://stan.md/3KoJn0N

10/02/2025

Neurons don’t just wear out like kneecaps or hip sockets. They’re built to last. But with age, bad things can happen to them. A lot of it is triggered by what’s happening to immune cells outside of the brain.

09/23/2025

The genetic variant APOE4, carried by one-fifth of the world’s people, substantially boosts Alzheimer’s risk. But scientists have been puzzled about how to reverse that risk: punch up the gene variant’s potency, or smack it down? Now we know.

07/29/2025

In an analysis of more than 2 million patient records, researchers discovered that people taking angiotensin receptor blockers for high blood pressure were less likely to develop epilepsy.