Knight Initiative News

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

Unlike chronological age, biological age can change and is a reflection of how your body's cells, tissues, and organs are functioning and aging

Neural organoids have been revealing 'bombshell secrets about brain development.' But what are they?

From studying post-viral fatigue to engineering transparent mouse brains, round three of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s Big Ideas grants will push the bounds of what’s possible

A recent meeting gathered scientists, ethicists, patient advocates and more to discuss organoid ethics.

Researchers studying the human brain shared a lot of fascinating research last year, including a study from Wu Tsai Neuro scientists who replicated the brain's pain circuits.

A new study suggests that there may have been evolutionary advantages from changes to genes also associated with autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia

Stanford Data Science and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute launched the Center for Neural Data Science as a collaborative hub to accelerate discovery in neuroscience and train the next generation of data-driven neuroscientists

The 12th annual Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Symposium explored how our brains and bodies communicate—and what that means for our health and well-being

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

Neuroradiologist Raag Airan and his lab have found a non-invasive, drug-free method to help clean the brain, reduce inflammation, and treat disease—and with Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience support, they plan to test it in people soon.

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.