Knight Initiative News

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

Wu Tsai Neuro researchers reprogrammed fruit fly brain development and behavior using new discoveries about how attractive and repulsive molecules build neural circuits

Neuroscience experts convened in Asilomar to talk through guidelines around ethical research on human neural organoids

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

The Neurosciences Theory Center member has been awarded a senior fellowship through the Schmidt Sciences Foundation's AI2050 program.

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom.

Scientists and ethicists including Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Sergiu Pașca and Hank Greely argued for an international process to address the ethical and social questions raised by organoids.

By studying why some kids struggle to read, cognitive neuroscientist Jason Yeatman hopes to make education work better for all students and deepen science’s understanding of the brain.

Join us as we talk with Brian Knutson, a professor of psychology in Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences about the frontiers of neuroeconomics, bridging psychology, economics, and neuroscience

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Thomas Montine and Alice Ting are among those joining the distinguished society of physicians.

In a clinical trial of a wireless retinal prosthesis, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Daniel Palanker and colleagues found that people with advanced macular degeneration regained enough vision to read books and subway signs.

Synthetic brain MRI technology is supercharging computational neuroscience with massive data.

A new study led by Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Laura Gwilliams maps how we simultaneously process different words.

In which we discuss how bad social isolation is for our brains with neuroscientist and author Ben Rein

Organizers of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s 12th annual symposium share exciting new discoveries from the frontiers of the “gut-brain axis.”

Premature babies who heard recordings of their mothers reading to them had more mature white matter in a key language area of the brain, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Heidi Feldman and colleagues found.

Studying mice of different ages, Stanford scientists and colleagues found that neurons involved in spatial memory become less reliable later in life.

With large-scale neuron recordings and sharper fMRI now routine, a new collaboration between the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Stanford Data Science aims to make sense of the surge in data.

In which we discuss the neuroscience of sketching ideas with Stanford psychologist Judy Fan

Researchers from around the university will collaborate to deepen our understanding of the brain.