Knight Initiative News

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

Faculty Scholar Paul Nuyujukian spoke to NPR's Short Wave podcast about his work on brain-machine interfaces and neurological disease

An eye prosthesis 20 years in the making and supported by a Big Ideas in Neuroscience award restores sight in patients with a common age-related eye disease

Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong and colleagues developed a way to activate light-emitting nanoparticles with ultrasound, which could be used to manipulate cell signals or facilitate light-based medical treatments in the future

Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong says that light plays a key role in neuroscience and—and that’s why he’s working with a Big Ideas in Neuroscience team to make transparent brains

We talk with Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong about how insights from glass frogs and our own eyes could help engineer transparent brains

The research showed that chronic pain is controlled by an entirely separate system than acute pain

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

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

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

Wu Tsai Neuro Institute Scholars Todd Coleman and Julia Kaltschmidt are creating detailed maps of the enteric nervous system to understand the influence synchronization between the gut and the brain has on disease

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

In stroke patients with aphasia, the brain spends too little time processing ambiguous sounds, researchers find, suggesting new targets for precision therapies

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

We speak with cognitive scientist Vinod Menon about the brain networks behind day dreaming, rumination, and our sense of self

Wu Tsai Neuro researcher Vinod Menon and colleagues showed that children with math learning disabilities exhibit distinct brain activity patterns—insights that could pave the way for innovative support strategies

Stanford researchers have developed a deep learning model that transforms overwhelming brain data into clear trajectories, opening new possibilities for understanding thought, emotion, and neurological disease

Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray and others talked to Nature Aging about aging research