Featured News Image news | May 16 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How we remember, why we forget This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with memory expert Anthony Wagner about the nature of memory and how to improve it Image news | May 9 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics Inside Out: How do LSD and psilocybin alter our perceptions? (Part ... This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about how psychedelics work in the brain. How do tiny quantities of these chemicals alter our perception of reality? And what does that say about... reality? Image news | May 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neuro Exploring MRI's role in neuroscience research on model organisms Recognizing the potential for wider application in small-animal neuroscience research, the Neurosciences Preclinical Imaging Lab (NPIL) at Wu Tsai Neuro hosted its 3rd annual symposium and named the recipients of its Pilot Grants. Image news | May 2 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about studies that could change our understanding of the renaissance in psychedelic medicine News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroDiscovery NeuroHealth NeuroEngineering News TypeResearch news Featured News Press coverage Awards and honors Researcher profiles Podcast episodes Knight Initiative news Institute News Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image news | Oct 30 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Surprising finding links sleep, brain insulation, and neurodegeneration Erin Gibson’s lab has discovered that the precursor cells to myelin-producing oligodendrocytes are regulated by the circadian system in mice. When that regulation breaks down, the researchers saw abnormal myelination — but also fragmented sleep. Image news | Oct 27 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: Linking sleep, brain insulation, and neurological disease with postdoc Dani... Working in the Gibson Lab, Brain Resilience Postdoc Scholar Daniela Rojo looks at how abnormal changes in gene activity impact the cells involved in producing myelin to the extent that it leads to neurodegeneration in the brain. Image news | Oct 19 2023 From Our Neurons to Yours How we understand each other This week, neuro-linguist Laura Gwilliams breaks down how sound becomes information in the human brain, specifically focusing on how speech is transformed into meaning. Image news | Oct 16 2023 New York Times Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.) There is no free will, according to Robert Sapolsky, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate, Stanford biologist and neurologist, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. Image news | Oct 5 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Uncovering a role for plasticity in innate behavior Through an unexpected collaboration, Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary postdoc Renzhi Yang discovered that the brain circuits controlling mouse sexual behavior are far more dynamic than researchers had realized. news | Oct 3 2023 Stanford Report Stanford researchers receive NIH High-Risk, High-Reward grants The interim chief of pediatric neurology at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health discussed progress in preventing seizures among patients with epilepsy, the potential for gene-targeted therapies, and the importance of localizing where seizures are coming f Image news | Sep 14 2023 Sarafan ChEM-H Driver of neurodegenerative diseases revealed In searching for how a gene mutation associated with the cell’s recycling center leads to a rare disease, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience and Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Monther Abu-Remaileh and team identified a missing link in neurodegenerative condi Image news | Aug 21 2023 Neuroscience News Is the Brain’s White Matter an Unexpected Key to Aging and Memory? Funded in part by the Knight Initiative , researchers at the Wyss-Coray Lab have discovered that age-related cognitive decline is most pronounced in the brain’s white matter in a new study. Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page
Image news | May 16 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How we remember, why we forget This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with memory expert Anthony Wagner about the nature of memory and how to improve it
Image news | May 9 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics Inside Out: How do LSD and psilocybin alter our perceptions? (Part ... This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about how psychedelics work in the brain. How do tiny quantities of these chemicals alter our perception of reality? And what does that say about... reality?
Image news | May 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neuro Exploring MRI's role in neuroscience research on model organisms Recognizing the potential for wider application in small-animal neuroscience research, the Neurosciences Preclinical Imaging Lab (NPIL) at Wu Tsai Neuro hosted its 3rd annual symposium and named the recipients of its Pilot Grants.
Image news | May 2 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about studies that could change our understanding of the renaissance in psychedelic medicine
Image news | Oct 30 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Surprising finding links sleep, brain insulation, and neurodegeneration Erin Gibson’s lab has discovered that the precursor cells to myelin-producing oligodendrocytes are regulated by the circadian system in mice. When that regulation breaks down, the researchers saw abnormal myelination — but also fragmented sleep.
Image news | Oct 27 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: Linking sleep, brain insulation, and neurological disease with postdoc Dani... Working in the Gibson Lab, Brain Resilience Postdoc Scholar Daniela Rojo looks at how abnormal changes in gene activity impact the cells involved in producing myelin to the extent that it leads to neurodegeneration in the brain.
Image news | Oct 19 2023 From Our Neurons to Yours How we understand each other This week, neuro-linguist Laura Gwilliams breaks down how sound becomes information in the human brain, specifically focusing on how speech is transformed into meaning.
Image news | Oct 16 2023 New York Times Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.) There is no free will, according to Robert Sapolsky, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate, Stanford biologist and neurologist, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant.
Image news | Oct 5 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Uncovering a role for plasticity in innate behavior Through an unexpected collaboration, Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary postdoc Renzhi Yang discovered that the brain circuits controlling mouse sexual behavior are far more dynamic than researchers had realized.
news | Oct 3 2023 Stanford Report Stanford researchers receive NIH High-Risk, High-Reward grants The interim chief of pediatric neurology at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health discussed progress in preventing seizures among patients with epilepsy, the potential for gene-targeted therapies, and the importance of localizing where seizures are coming f
Image news | Sep 14 2023 Sarafan ChEM-H Driver of neurodegenerative diseases revealed In searching for how a gene mutation associated with the cell’s recycling center leads to a rare disease, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience and Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Monther Abu-Remaileh and team identified a missing link in neurodegenerative condi
Image news | Aug 21 2023 Neuroscience News Is the Brain’s White Matter an Unexpected Key to Aging and Memory? Funded in part by the Knight Initiative , researchers at the Wyss-Coray Lab have discovered that age-related cognitive decline is most pronounced in the brain’s white matter in a new study.