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‘The human brain remains the final frontier’
Stanford neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca is pioneering technology to recreate human brain tissue and neural circuits in the lab – giving scientists unprecedented access to human brain development and opening new possibilities for treating disorders from psychiatric disease to chronic pain.
Your brain could be 'older' than your age—and it's easier than ever to find out
Is your brain aging faster than your chronological age? New research shows it could raise your risk of death and dementia significantly—and offers promise for early intervention.
Knight Initiative symposium charts new frontiers in brain health
Knight Initiative-funded research ran the gamut from chemistry to public health, but one theme brought it all together: Studying what makes the brain resilient will help more people live better lives.
Scientists Succeed in Reversing Parkinson’s Symptoms in Mice
The findings of two recent studies give hope that the disease could one day be reversed in humans—but experts warn that this complex disease will likely need multiple complementary treatments.
Brain health: It's 'biological age' might be able to predict your life span
A new Stanford study used blood proteins to analyze the 'biological' age of brains and other organs compared to the person's actual age.
Stanford researchers develop new tool to measure biological age
The tool, built by a team led by Stanford's Tony Wyss-Coray, uses a single vial of blood to assess the 'biological age' of each organ.
People with ‘young brains’ outlive ‘old-brained’ peers
A blood-test analysis developed at Stanford Medicine can determine the “biological ages” of 11 separate organ systems in individuals’ bodies and predict the health consequences.
Two roads to memory
A new study supported by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience reveals how Alzheimer's disease and attention shape our ability to remember.
Myelin matters
A decade ago, three generations of Stanford scientists banded together to publish a landmark study on one of the brain’s most prevalent structures. Today, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute researchers are discovering that myelin is key to just about every aspect of neurological health.
Locations of treats are stored in specialized neural maps
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.
To get from experience to emotion, the brain hits 'sustain'
Wu Tsai Neuro researcher Karl Deisseroth and colleagues drew on a variety of techniques to probe how emotional responses arise in the brain.
Study reveals how sensory experiences trigger lasting emotions
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.
Alzheimer's "resilience signature" predicts who will develop dementia—and how fast
Knight Initiative researchers discover a biomarker in spinal fluid that could help forecast Alzheimer’s progression and improve clinical trials.
The neuroscience of understanding
Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams is unlocking how the brain turns sound into meaning.
‘Step by step, we’ve made a huge amount of progress’
Molecular biologist Luis de Lecea is mapping the brain circuits that control sleep so we can manipulate them for a better night’s rest.
We need to understand how something works before we can understand how it breaks
Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Lauren O’Connell explores the fundamental questions that underlie human relationships
What the other half of the brain does
This week on the podcast, Stanford cell biologist Brad Zuchero takes us on a tour of the frontiers of glia-science
Bridging nature and nurture: The brain's flexible foundation from birth
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.
Meet the frogs helping scientists answer fundamental questions in neuroscience and physiology
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.
Changes in brain’s "sugar shield" could be key to understanding effects of aging
New findings about the sugary armor on the brain’s frontline cells could shed light on cognitive decline and diseases like Alzheimer’s—and open new avenues for treatment.
