Knight Initiative News

Laura Gwilliams, a Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar, and Brian Hie are the inaugural faculty of Stanford Data Science. Their work spans multiple disciplines but is united by the desire to explore and leverage large volumes of real-world data.

Work on human cognition by the founding director of the Wu Tsai Neuro Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology was foundational for neural-network-based computational modeling 

This week we are talking with Stanford neurobiologist Lisa Giocomo, exploring the intersection of memory, navigation, and the boundaries we create between ourselves and the world around us.

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Carolyn Rodriguez directs the Stanford OCD Research Lab. She tells NPR there are still a lot of basics we have yet to understand about OCD.

Stanford undergraduates and local community college students showcased their summer research projects at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, highlighting efforts to introduce students to neuroscience research for the first time.

With support from a Wu Tsai Neuro seed grant, faculty affiliate Helen Bronte-Stewart and her team have developed a simple, portable device to help Parkinson's patients track their symptoms at home.

New research by Institute affiliate Leanne Williams adds to the evidence that choosing treatment based on the neurological underpinnings of a patient’s depression increases the odds of success.

This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with Leanne Williams about distinctive biotypes of depression revealed by brain imaging and AI, and the implications for therapy and mental health.

It may feel like you’re being more productive, but experts like Anthony Wagner say you’re not.

Groundbreaking research supported by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute deepens our understanding of how the amino acid taurine may help reduce appetite and prevent obesity.

This week, we talk with "radical behaviorist" Kim Bullock about how virtual reality technologies could serve as behavioral therapeutics to enhance psychotherapy.

This week, we talk with Zhenan Bao about reverse engineering the remarkable properties of human skin to design new wearable devices for neuroscience.

At the 2024 Neuro-omics Symposium, early-stage research funded by Wu Tsai Neuro's Big Ideas in Neuroscience program revealed exciting progress at the intersection of genomics and AI.

New software developed by the NeuroPlant Big Ideas in Neuroscience initiative turns an ordinary flatbed scanner and collection of nematode worms into a DIY platform to sniff out both beneficial and harmful plant-based molecules.

This week, we talk with Michelle Monje and Rob Malenka about recent findings on the role of myelin plasticity in opioid addiction.

To advance neuroscience research using EEG and TMS technologies, the Koret Human Neurosciences Community Lab has awarded its inaugural Human Neuroscience Pilot Grants to ten innovative research projects.

Why do our brains get worse at learning as we get older, and what can we do about it? Institute affiliate Carla Shatz discusses our brain's capacity for change on this podcast episode.

A research team at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has made a major stride in using AI to replicate how the brain organizes sensory information to make sense of the world, opening up new frontiers for virtual neuroscience.

This week, we talk with Surya Ganguli about the neuroscience of AI, and how advances in artificial intelligence could teach us about our own brains.

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.