Knight Initiative News

The Knight Initiative’s Fall Symposium featured researchers building new molecular atlases of the brain alongside new updates on neurodegenerative disease and what might be done about it.

In a clinical trial of a wireless retinal prosthesis, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Daniel Palanker and colleagues found that people with advanced macular degeneration regained enough vision to read books and subway signs.

Synthetic brain MRI technology is supercharging computational neuroscience with massive data.

A new study led by Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Laura Gwilliams maps how we simultaneously process different words.

Organizers of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s 12th annual symposium share exciting new discoveries from the frontiers of the “gut-brain axis.”

Studying mice of different ages, Stanford scientists and colleagues found that neurons involved in spatial memory become less reliable later in life.

Researchers from around the university will collaborate to deepen our understanding of the brain.

Untangling the complex connections between the gut, brain and microbiome to heal chronic GI conditions

What could make a promising approach to psychiatry and brain research even better? A solid beat.

Developed by Stanford researchers, NeuroString is a hair-thin multichannel biosensor and stimulator with promising potential applications in drug delivery, nerve stimulation, smart fabrics, and more.

Knight Initiative researchers are uncovering the fine points of how our brains learn to move. In the long run, their findings could help devise better treatments for Parkinson's disease.

Stanford undergrads and local community college students paired with Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute researchers to find new ways to head off strokes, predict Alzheimer's disease, and more.

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Guosong Hong and colleagues developed a new technique to observe neuron formation and firing in juvenile mice, potentially enhancing our understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders and enabling new interventions.

Exploring the electrical connections between cancer and brain cells, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje is bringing hope to children with brain tumors.

In this episode, we explore the fascinating neuroscience behind how children learn to read with Bruce McCandliss, director of the Stanford Educational Neuroscience Initiative.

In a new study in rats, scientists used ultrasound-activated nanoparticles to deliver ketamine and anesthetics to precise targets in the brain.

In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying.

Stanford Medicine scientists have developed a brain-computer interface that “reads” thoughts from speech-impaired patients — but only on their command — potentially restoring rapid communication.

In which neuroscientist Dan Abrams shares the quest to understand how our brains are tuned for voices, and why this instinct fails to develop in children with autism.

An interdisciplinary team of Wu Tsai Neuro scientists working on balls of human neurons called organoids wanted to scale up their efforts and take on important new questions. The solution was all around them.