Knight Initiative News

Students learned how behind every success is a story of perseverance, frustration, and failure in a fall quarter class featuring Stanford’s own Nobel laureates and MacArthur “genius” fellows, including Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje.

Researchers designed, built, and tested a new focused ultrasound neuromodulation system for preclinical brain research supported by a Seed Grant.

Stanford Hospital brings together two autopsy rooms, the morgue, including bereavement and viewing rooms, as well as decedent care team offices. The new space allows for more advanced research for the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience and others.

Stanford Medicine researchers, including Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Nolan Williams, find that ibogaine, a plant-based psychoactive compound, safely led to improvements in depression, anxiety and functioning among veterans with traumatic brain injuries.

Stanford Medicine scientists, including Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates David Spiegel and Nolan Williams, used transcranial magnetic stimulation to temporarily enhance hypnotizability in patients with chronic pain, making them better candidates for hypnotherapy.

With limited therapeutic options available, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and team have turned to studying the growth patterns of brain tumors that occur in glial cells to identify new treatment avenues.

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.

Members of Wu Tsai Neuro and the Knight Initiative were selected by the editors and writers of Stanford Communications for the most significant scientific achievements covered by Stanford Medicine in 2023.

An episode of From Our Neurons to Yours, a Wu Tsai Neuro podcast hosted by Nicholas Weiler, was selected by Stanford staff for most impactful stories.

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

In a first-of-its-kind study, faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams and colleagues at UCSF give us an unprecedented view into how the brain analyzes the sounds in words

Wu Tsai Neuro’s newest faculty scholar, Laura Gwilliams, discusses advances in the science of how we understand one another.

A new study co-authored by Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray demonstrates a simple way of studying organ aging by analyzing distinct proteins in blood, enabling the prediction of individuals’ risk for diseases.

It turns out that your chronological age really is just a number. What’s more important for knowing disease risk is the biological age of each of your organs.

In today’s mostly plague- and famine-free world, if you can avoid more modern scourges like gun and car violence, you can expect your death to arrive not with a bang but a whimper; when one of your organs sput-sput-sputters out.

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Karl Deisseroth, Carolyn Rodriguez, Vivek Buch, Paul Nuyujukian, and team have created a super-charged, multidisciplinary in-patient research program and laboratory to better understand neuropsychiatric disorders.

A new technique using deep brain stimulation tailored to each patient exceeded researchers’ expectations in treating the cognitive impairments from moderate to severe traumatic brain injury.

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

It may not be smart, but we value something more if we’ve put a lot of sweat equity into it. Affiliates Neir Eshel and Rob Malenka, with support from the Wu Tsai Neuro–funded NeuroChoice Initiative, may have figured out the biochemical basis of why.

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and other researchers find understanding the interplay between cancer tumors and the nervous system may be essential for winning the war on cancer.