Knight Initiative News

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.

Knight Initiative researchers developed a blood test that track the biological age of the brain and other organs.

Stanford neurobiologist Carla Shatz, famous for discovering how neural connections develop early in life, is using that knowledge to work on the problem of how they can later deteriorate from Alzheimer’s disease.

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.

In which addiction expert Keith Humphreys explains how neuroscience is reshaping our understanding of substance abuse—and why policy still hasn’t caught up.

With support from a Wu Tsai Neuro grant, researchers have developed a potentially game-changing new way to treat a leading cause of death.

A new Stanford study used blood proteins to analyze the 'biological' age of brains and other organs compared to the person's actual 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.

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.

Research in mice indicates that inhibiting the LRRK2 enzyme could stabilize patients with a type of Parkinson’s disease.

Former Wu Tsai Neuro Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Sergey Stavisky helped lead an effort to translate brain signals into speech.

In which physician-scientist Marion Buckwalter shares the remarkable advances we've seen in stroke care in recent decades, thanks to long-standing national support for curiosity-driven research

A new study supported by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience reveals how Alzheimer's disease and attention shape our ability to remember.

Scientists in the lab of chemical engineer Monther Abu-Remaileh are uncovering the cellular functions that go awry in degenerative brain disorders and identifying therapies that could treat them.

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.

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.

Researchers supported by a Neuroscience:Translate grant from Wu Tsai Neuro have developed a new technology for removing blood clots that is more than twice as effective as current techniques.

A team at Stanford, supported by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience, is using the biology of recovery to uncover why some aging brains withstand stress while others quietly unravel.

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