Knight Initiative News

In which anesthesiologist Martin Angst shares how studying the biology of recovery may reveal why some aging brains withstand stress while others quietly unravel.

Research from the Giocomo lab finds that mice create neural maps of the location of rewards, distinct from the well-known hippocampal maps of an animal's location in space.

Wu Tsai Neuro researcher Karl Deisseroth and colleagues drew on a variety of techniques to probe how emotional responses arise in the brain.

Scientists found that humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to negative sensory inputs – offering insight into emotion and potential links to neuropsychiatric disorders.

In a favorite 2024 episode, we spoke with Jaimie Henderson, a Stanford neurosurgeon leading groundbreaking research in brain-machine interfaces.

In which Anthony Wagner and Beth Mormino share what they are learning from the Stanford Aging and Memory Study about the nature of healthy brain aging.

Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams is unlocking how the brain turns sound into meaning.
 

In which Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Dan Yamins explores how foundation models of the human brain could revolutionize neuroscience.

Molecular biologist Luis de Lecea is mapping the brain circuits that control sleep so we can manipulate them for a better night’s rest.

In which Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams explores how AI chatbots can model the human brain's language abilities.

In a new study, researchers created an AI model of the mouse visual cortex that predicts neuronal responses to visual images.

Researchers with the Wu Tsai Neuro–funded Stanford Brain Organogenesis project have rebuilt, in laboratory glassware, the neural pathway that sends information from the body’s periphery to the brain.

This week on the podcast, Stanford radiology faculty Kim Butts Pauly and Raag Airan help us dive deep into the brain with focused ultrasound

By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute have identified how a balance of innate structure and flexible learning produces our remarkably organized visual brains.

In the lab of Lauren O’Connell, associate professor of biology, researchers look to amphibian species to learn how animals evolve in response to changing environments.

Our brains and digestive tracts are in constant communication. When that communication goes off the rails, research suggests diseases and disorders can result.

Stanford Medicine spoke with neurologist Helen Bronte-Stewart, who conducted research that led to the development of a technology recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The 1970s papers from Goldberg and Wurtz made ambitious mechanistic studies of higher brain functions seem feasible.

Mice learn fastest and most reliably when they experience an increase in dopamine paired with an inhibition of serotonin in their nucleus accumbens, a new study shows, helping to resolve long-standing questions about the neuromodulators’ relationship.

A new generation of researchers at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is developing tools to modify brain activity for research and clinical applications—without drilling through the skull.