Stanford Neurosciences PhD Program
Visualizing connectivity in cortical neurons.
Layer 5 pyramidal neurons in motor cortex (green, nuclei in blue) send projections to the spinal cord and across to the other hemisphere (red), which act as an important substrate for recovery following injury. From the Shatz lab.
Clark Center
Stanford's Clark Center is one of several buildings that house neuroscience labs on campus.
Two African cichlid fish fighting
Two dominant male Africah cichlid fish Astotilapia burtoni engaged in a fight over the borer of their adjacent territories (image courtesy of Todd Anderson). From the Fernald lab.
Alzheimer's Mouse Model
This image from the hippocampus of an Alzheimer's model mouse, neurons (subset labeled in green) are damaged by the toxic amyloid-beta peptide (red) that additionally stimulates an inflammatory microglial response (white) that may also involve clearance of amyloid-beta by microglia. Blue labels all cell nuclei in this image. From the Andreasson Lab.
Barn owl learning.
Barn owls use vision to teach their auditory systems how to localize the sounds of their prey. Photo by Phyllis Knudsen. From the Knudsen lab.
Fiber tracts in children.
White-matter fiber tracts examined in a DTI study of children reported by Thomason et al. (2010). From the Gotlib lab.