STANFORD MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Forget Me Not’ – 125 years ago, Alois Alzheimer met a woman who was losing her memories. So he studied her brain. Here is what he couldn’t see.

The Search

Inside the hunt to prevent, delay, and cure Alzheimer’s disease.

Annals of Migraine

One in 10 Americans experiences migraine headaches, which can be incapacitating. But there may be a light on the other side of your blackout curtains. Currently, doctors diagnose migraine based on patient description and treat the headaches based on frequency—episodic or chronic (more than 15 days per month). Treatment decisions are “worse than trial and error,” clinical professor of neurology Robert Cowan told Stanford Medicine. “It’s darts in the dark.” What’s more, guidelines recommend preventative, daily medication only for people with chronic migraine. But including severity may improve treatment options. In the largest study to date to categorize migraine patients, Cowan and data analyst Jaiashre Sridhar used functional MRI data to identify two biological subtypes. One group of patients had more severe headaches—they tended to last longer and caused more bothersome symptoms (nausea, noise sensitivity, etc.). 

Biblio File: What to Read Now — Autumn 2026

New releases on our shelves and in our bookbags.

In Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists’ Adventures into the Unknown (Sourcebooks), science journalist Roberta Kwok, ’00, witnesses the “messy middle” of science between researchers’ initial query and possible final discovery. The nine projects she investigates, from sex-role reversal in male guardian frogs to a quest to find an exomoon, depict the slow, frustrating, and focused work of scientists.