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Upcoming Events
Join us to learn about exciting developments in brain resilience research.
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Brain Resilience Seminar: Meena Chakraborty and Julian Garcia
Seminar
Mar 2 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
MBCT Symposium 2026: Linking Timescales of Behavior and Neural Activity through Recurrent Computation
Symposium
Mar 4 2026, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
A new neuroscience of pregnancy
We speak with neuroscientist Nirao Shah and endocrinologist Katrin Svensson about the Stanford Neuro-Pregnancy Initiative, part of Wu Tsai Neuro's Big Ideas in Neuroscience program
Engineered immune therapy could help fight brain aging
Neuroscientists studying inflammation and age-related brain decline engineered a protein that spurs the growth of new neurons in aging mice
Reading-specific region differs in the dyslexic brain
A brain region specialized for recognizing text is smaller or absent in kids with dyslexia, but tutoring partly closes the gap
Featured Projects
Mutant microglia and resilience to Alzheimer’s disease
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Mechanistic dissection and therapeutic capture of an exercise-inducible metabolite signaling pathway for brain resilience
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