Knight Initiative News

Michael T. Nietzel

In this research roundup, we look back on some of the ways Knight Initiative scientists have been pursuing ways to keep our minds sharp well into old age

The teams will tackle questions linked to Parkinson's pathology and mechanisms with an eye toward treatments

Shingles vaccines appear to have a protective benefit, Knight Initiative researcher Pascal Geldsetzer has shown.

We talk with neurologist Kathleen Poston about early signs of Parkinson's outside the brain and how they might influence treatment and detection

Stanford Medicine neurologists explain what is known—and still unknown—about the Alzheimer's gender gap

Knight Initiative researchers created a new atlas of aging in the killifish tracks how organs change over time, revealing processes implicated in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases

The Rosenkranz Aging and Rejuvenation Seed Grant Program announced eight innovative new research projects with additional support from the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

A conversation about microbes, memory, and our internal senses with Wu Tsai Neuro gut–brain expert Christoph Thaiss

After building a Truman Show experiment, scientists were able to predict the lifespans of their 81 subjects

Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Steering Committee member Anne Brunet explores what aging really is, how lifestyle choices might influence longevity, and the promising frontiers of aging research

Aging causes changes in gut bacteria in mice, hampering communication between the intestines and the brain—but restoring this connection helped old mice form memories as well as young animals

Knight Initiative scientists tracked every moment of the life of the African turquoise killifish, showing that behavior alone can forecast whether an animal will live a long or short life

We speak with Wu Tsai Neuro postdocs Claire Bedbrook and Ravi Nath about their new study that found that an animal's lifespan can be predicted surprisingly early by just looking at their behavior

The Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery Prizes will give Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong and Knight Initiative-supported researcher Pascal Geldsetzer $750,000 each over three years to develop research on neurodegenerative diseases.

Brain Resilience Postdoctoral Scholar Annie Goettemoeller is studying how epilepsy-like activity might drive the spread of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain

Frank Longo's long trek nears its destination

Neuroscientists studying inflammation and age-related brain decline engineered a protein that spurs the growth of new neurons in aging mice

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

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