Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Unlocking the mysteries of brain and behavior

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Institute Announcements

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Program Events Producer, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

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Director of Scientific Portfolio, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

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Mar 4, 2026: MBCT Symposium, "Linking timescales of behavior and neural activity through recurrent computation"

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23 Feb 4pm to 5:15pm PST

MBCT Seminar: Eugene Izhikevich - Spiking Manifesto [Updated Speaker]

26 Feb 12pm to 1pm PST

Neurosciences Seminar: Mark Andermann - Tracking offline cortical reactivations and biochemical signaling in the awake brain

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02 Mar 12pm to 1pm PST

Brain Resilience Seminar: Meena Chakraborty and Julian Garcia

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04 Mar 1pm to 6pm PST

MBCT Symposium 2026: Linking Timescales of Behavior and Neural Activity through Recurrent Computation

Featured News

Laura Gwilliams, Jill Kries, and other members of the Gwilliams lab sit around a table discussing research presentation.

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Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Why the brain misunderstands speech after stroke

In stroke patients with aphasia, the brain spends too little time processing ambiguous sounds, researchers find, suggesting new targets for precision therapies

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Stanford Report

Three Wu Tsai Neuro scientists are named Sloan Research Fellows

Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong and institute affiliates Christoph Thaiss and Steven Banik were among eight Stanford researchers to receive the honor

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Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

Preventing Parkinson’s, a new Alzheimer’s drug, and more featured at tenth Knigh...

Researchers from around the world convened at Stanford to present their latest work on neurodegeneration and brain resilience

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Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

Aging brains pile up damaged proteins

Proteins that start life inside neurons build up faster in old age and spread to other brain cells—a potential source of neurological mischief

Podcast: From Our Neurons to Yours

From Our Neurons to Yours Wu Tsai Neuro Podcast

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Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Why do our minds wander? What the brain's default mode tells us about our humani...

We speak with cognitive scientist Vinod Menon about the brain networks behind day dreaming, rumination, and our sense of self

From Our Neurons to Yours Wu Tsai Neuro Podcast

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Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Is Alzheimer's an energy crisis in the brain?

We speak with neurologist Katrin Andreasson about new links between inflammation, metabolism and new hopes for treating neurodegeneration

From Our Neurons to Yours Wu Tsai Neuro Podcast

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Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

"The Emergent Mind: How intelligence arises in people and machines"

We speak with cognitive scientist and MBCT director Jay McClelland about his new book and the relationship between the neural networks powering our brains and our AI systems

From Our Neurons to Yours Wu Tsai Neuro Podcast

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Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Could brain implants read our thoughts? (Not yet)

Join us as we talk with Erin Kunz about building brain-computer interfaces to restore speech to people with paralysis, and recent research testing whether this technology could accidentally read out private thoughts