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The Developing Brain: Neuroscience from Womb to Death

The Stanford Center on Longevity partnered with the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences and UC Hastings to host this two-part event, which examined emerging evidence from the expanding field of neuroscience and the effect of this evidence on law and policy. The panels and speakers over the two days of the conference considered… Read more The Developing Brain: Neuroscience from Womb to Death

Center to Co-Host Law and Policy Symposium on “The Developing Brain: Neuroscience from Womb to Death”

Working with the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Hastings College of the Law, the Center on Longevity will be hosting a two-day symposium on the shifting legal and policy implications of new developments in neuroscience. The event will unfold along developmental lines. DAY 1: Hastings College of the Law San Francisco,… Read more Center to Co-Host Law and Policy Symposium on “The Developing Brain: Neuroscience from Womb to Death”

1/12/2012 - Age Discrimination Takes Its Toll

A startling proportion of older people report that they’ve experienced discrimination: 63 percent, in a study recently published in Research on Aging. The most commonly cited cause? “Thirty percent report being mistreated because of their age,” said the lead author Ye Luo, a Clemson University sociologist. Perceived discrimination because of gender, race or ancestry, disabilities or… Read more 1/12/2012 - Age Discrimination Takes Its Toll

1/11/2012 - How Long Until the End?

Last spring, I wrote about a group of geriatricians and researchers assembling online a variety of geriatric indexes that do a reasonably good job of predicting mortality for those older than age 60. Since a number of tests and treatments ought to take life expectancy into account, they reasoned, physicians should have these validated tools… Read more 1/11/2012 - How Long Until the End?

1/10/2012 - Interactive Tools to Assess the Likelihood of Death

To help prevent overtesting and overtreatment of older patients — or undertreatment for those who remain robust at advanced ages — medical guidelines increasingly call for doctors to consider life expectancy as a factor in their decision-making. But clinicians, research has shown, are notoriously poor at predicting how many years their patients have left. Now,… Read more 1/10/2012 - Interactive Tools to Assess the Likelihood of Death

Anxiety vs. Stress: What's The Difference?

We all experience stress, right? It’s a fact of nature, and it offers pretty important evolutionary advantages. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to sound the proverbial alarm if danger were imminent. Stress is one of the greatest tools an animal has to beat the odds and stay alive. Read the full article at Huffington… Read more Anxiety vs. Stress: What's The Difference?

1/9/2012 - Advice From Life’s Graying Edge on Finishing With No Regrets

At 17, I wrote a speech titled, “When You Come to the End of Your Days, Will You Be Able to Write Your Own Epitaph?” It reflected the approach to life I adopted after my mother’s untimely death from cancer at age 49. I chose to live each day as if it could be my… Read more 1/9/2012 - Advice From Life’s Graying Edge on Finishing With No Regrets

1/6/2012 - Study shows memory loss can start as early as 45

Loss of memory and other brain function can start as early as age 45, posing a big challenge to scientists looking for new ways to stave off dementia, researchers said Thursday. Read the full article at Reuters

1/5/2012 - A Community Time Bank

In Montpelier, Vermont, a city program called the Reach Service Exchange Network began operation in the fall of 2010, powered by a grant of $1 million from the federal Administration on Aging. Read the full article in The New York Times

Myra Strober

Professor of Education, Emerita Department: Education Research interests: Gender issues at the workplace; work and family; multidisciplinarity in higher education; occupational segregation; women in the professions and management; the economics of childcare; feminist economics and the teaching of economics Email: Myra.Strober@stanford.edu Phone: (650) 493-0400 Address: School of Education 892 Lathrop Drive Stanford, CA 94305-3096 Website:… Read more Myra Strober