Neuroscience News

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Cory Shain and team uncovered evidence of a dedicated language network in the brain, with potential implications for treating language problems after stroke or brain injury

In a paradigm shift, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Bingwei Lu's lab has found a new role for a well-known protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders

Corey Keller explains TMS and his efforts to better understand and harness this promising approach to psychiatric care

Faculty Scholar Laura Gwilliams and colleagues dive into language neuroscience for curious kids

Contrary to long-standing views, Knight Initiative-funded researchers found bone marrow-derived cells infiltrate the aging human brain, paving the way for brain-targeted cell therapies

The discovery from an unusual team of computer scientists and pathologists overturns longstanding dogma – and could point the way toward new therapies for neurodegenerative disease

Using brain organoids, researchers aim to maximize the potential of individuals with autism, not mask their differences

We talk with psychiatrist Leanne Williams about how brain scans could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders

Two immune cell types’ contact plays a major role in aging, and blocking a hormone’s influence on one of those types halted mice’s age-associated decline in multiple organs

Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt takes us inside a new Big Ideas in Neuroscience project aimed at understanding how the gut tells the brain we're sick – and what that might reveal about chronic fatigue and long COVID.

Brain Resilience Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Hulya Torun describes her scientific path in this piece for SPIE's 2026 Women in Optics notebook

Brain Resilience Postdoc Heankel Lyons and Pathways to Neurosciences trainee Airi Yoshimoto will receive three years of funding from the Jane Coffin Childs Fund for Medical Research

New Knight Initiative research identifies a molecular signature in vulnerable cells that could lead to treatments to promote ALS resilience

The motor cortex is organized into an “intermixed jumble of tiles” to generate meaningful movement

Monther Abu-Remaileh takes us inside the lysosome, a cellular recycling center that could change how we think about Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's, and more

An update to the 89-year-old model shows that the brain’s motor cortex isn’t as neatly organized as previously thought