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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.
Your brain reveals a lot about your age
Knight Initiative researchers developed a blood test that track the biological age of the brain and other organs.
Foundational research on brain development may help prevent degeneration
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.
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.
Can brain science save addiction policy?
In which addiction expert Keith Humphreys explains how neuroscience is reshaping our understanding of substance abuse—and why policy still hasn’t caught up.
A breakthrough researchers call ‘magic’ could transform stroke treatment
With support from a Wu Tsai Neuro grant, researchers have developed a potentially game-changing new way to treat a leading cause of death.
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.
Inhibiting enzyme could halt cell death in Parkinson’s disease, study finds
Research in mice indicates that inhibiting the LRRK2 enzyme could stabilize patients with a type of Parkinson’s disease.
First-of-its-kind technology helps man with ALS ‘speak’ in real time
Former Wu Tsai Neuro Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Sergey Stavisky helped lead an effort to translate brain signals into speech.
How basic science transformed stroke care
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
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.
‘You can literally lose who you are’
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.
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.
Surgery as a window into brain resilience
In which anesthesiologist Martin Angst shares how studying the biology of recovery may reveal why some aging brains withstand stress while others quietly unravel.
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.
A game-changing way to treat stroke
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.
Under the Lights: What Surgery Reveals About Brain Resilience
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.
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.