Knight Initiative News

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.

This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about how psychedelics work in the brain.

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.

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.

This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we're talking about the neuroscience of climate change with neuroeconomist Nik Sawe.

Wu Tsai Neuro research suggests giant genes could hold the key to the development of complex nervous systems across the animal kingdom.

New research supported by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute could lead to novel treatments for demyelinating disorders such as multiple sclerosis.

Dentate spikes in the rodent hippocampus support learning by linking introspective thoughts and memories with current circumstances, according to new research supported by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.

This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we sit down with Stanford neurobiologist Lisa Giocomo to explore the intersection of memory and navigation.

This week, we're taking a deep dive with psychiatrist Carolyn Rodriguez into the neuroscience of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and why a single dose of ketamine can erase the disorder for weeks at a time.

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s sixth round of Neuroscience:Translate awards aim to accelerate promising discoveries from the lab to patient impact.

This week, we talk with psychiatrist Neir Eshel about dopamine, the difference between 'liking' and 'wanting,' and new ways of thinking about Parkinson's disease and addiction.

This week we talk with Jaimie Henderson, a Stanford neurosurgeon leading groundbreaking research in brain-machine interfaces.