Knight Initiative News

This week, we sit down with neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray to learn about how some of your organs may be aging faster than the rest of you.

This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we sit down with Stanford neurologist Kathleen Poston to learn about a sea change in our understanding of Parkinson's Disease.

Disabling the notorious APOE4 gene might protect against the disease, according to research from Michael Greicius and team.

This week, we're taking a deep dive with psychiatrist Carolyn Rodriguez into the neuroscience of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and why a single dose of ketamine can erase the disorder for weeks at a time.

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s sixth round of Neuroscience:Translate awards aim to accelerate promising discoveries from the lab to patient impact.

This week we talk with Jaimie Henderson, a Stanford neurosurgeon leading groundbreaking research in brain-machine interfaces.

We are proud to welcome the 2024 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars — ten young scientists pursuing novel, multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding the workings of the brain.

The science to advance our understanding of the aging process—and to potentially slow it down—has made important strides. One of the leading scientists responsible for this work is Professor Tony Wyss-Coray, whose work has focused on brain aging.

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University is proud to announce the recipients of its fifth round of Seed Grants.

This week, we dive into this misunderstood and often stigmatized world of epilepsy with Stanford neurologist Fiona Baumer.

This week, we talk about the neuroscience of sleep and how sleeplessness ages our bodies and our minds with Stanford psychiatry professor Luis de Lecea.

Erin Gibson’s lab has discovered that the precursor cells to myelin-producing oligodendrocytes are regulated by the circadian system in mice. When that regulation breaks down, the researchers saw abnormal myelination — but also fragmented sleep.

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is pleased to introduce our newest cohorts of Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows (SIGFs).

Institute Director Kang Shen reflects on the Institute's 10-year anniversary.

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is pleased to welcome our newest graduate student fellows in the neurosciences — including trainees entering the NeuroTech Training Program and Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology (MBCT) Student Membership Program.

Stanford undergraduates and local community college students presented their summer research projects in Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute labs at a poster session last month.

Pathologist Siddhartha Jaiswal discovers a surprising twist to our biology: age-related mutations that increase the risk of blood disease also protect against brain disease.

Researchers with Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute aim to improve gut motility and health outcomes for preterm babies through foundational research on the nervous system of the gut, called the enteric nervous system (ENS).

In this episode, chemist Jonathan Z. Long discusses his recent discovery of a new molecule produced when we exercise that appears to be linked to health benefits from regulating appetite to boosting learning and memory.

In this episode, psychiatrist Nolan Williams discusses transcranial magnetic stimulation for major depressino and its implications for the future of psychiatry on “From Our Neurons to Yours”, a podcast from the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.