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Image Knight Initiative news | Mar 23 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience New ideas in aging and resilience research launched by Rosenkranz Foundation and... The Rosenkranz Aging and Rejuvenation Seed Grant Program announced eight innovative new research projects with additional support from the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Mar 23 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Announcing the 2026 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars Ten innovative postdoctoral scholars will pursue creative approaches to advance neuroscience and brain resilience research
Image Research news | Mar 19 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Study of pythons’ extreme diet reveals new hunger-curbing molecule The snakes’ unique feeding behavior offers new clues about the gut-brain axis—and hints of a potential weight-loss drug with fewer side effects than GLP-1 drugs
Image Research news | Mar 12 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Watching a lifetime in motion reveals the architecture of aging Knight Initiative scientists tracked every moment of the life of the African turquoise killifish, showing that behavior alone can forecast whether an animal will live a long or short life
Image Press coverage | Oct 15 2018 Wired Researchers call for more humanity in Artificial Intelligence ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCHER Fei-Fei Li has spent her career trying to make software smart—with some success. Lately she’s begun to ask herself a new question: How can we make smart software aligned with human values?
Image Press coverage | Sep 17 2018 New York Times For Kids With Concussions, Less Time Alone in a Dark Room The C.D.C.’s first guidelines to focus on children’s head injuries steer doctors away from CT scans and prolonged isolation.
Image Press coverage | Sep 5 2018 Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute “Minds Wide Open” Documentary Showcases a Hopeful Future for Brain Science Stanford faculty Karl Deisseroth, Nolan Williams, Laura Roberts and Sergiu Pasca are featured in the documentary film "Minds Wide Open", showcasing exciting advances and tantalizing opportunities in brain science.
Image Awards and honors | Sep 4 2018 National Science Foundation New NSF Research Traineeship awards aim to transform approaches to STEM graduate... 17 new projects support preparation of future leaders in the STEM workforce.
Image Press coverage | Sep 4 2018 Science The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist In 2007, Stanford University neuroscientist Ben Barres published an essay comparing the experiences of female and male scientists. What made this essay noteworthy was that he wrote from personal experience.
Image Press coverage | Aug 29 2018 NPR Ketamine, A Promising Depression Treatment, Seems To Act Like An Opioid A new study suggests that ketamine, an increasingly popular treatment for depression, has something in common with drugs like fentanyl and oxycodone.
Image Press coverage | Aug 20 2018 SF Chronicle Expanded Awareness: Turning the Tables on Your Brain Sometimes the enormous success of science leads to some wrong assumptions. In the case of brain science, the advent of sophisticated brain scans opened a window to the brain as never before.
Image Press coverage | Aug 20 2018 The Atlantic America’s Invisible Pot Addicts More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead.
Image Press coverage | Aug 16 2018 SF GATE Better health might depend on a good night’s sleep Getting a sound night’s sleep is important for good health. But, sometimes older adults get much less sleep than they need. Health experts say seniors could sleep better if they made some simple changes.
Image Press coverage | Aug 12 2018 Scientific American Serotonin Revived as a Possible Target for Autism Treatments Speeding up the chemical messenger’s action makes autism-modeling mice more social
Image Press coverage | Aug 6 2018 San Francisco Chronicle Stanford researchers start concussion study with high school athletes A Palo Alto company is teaming up with a Stanford health care network and several regional high schools for a study that will use virtual reality headsets to track eye movements to better spot concussions.
Image Press coverage | Jul 2 2018 The New Yorker The neuroscience of pain Brain imaging is illuminating the neural patterns behind pain’s infinite variety.
Image Awards and honors | Jun 12 2018 McKnight Foundation 2018 McKnight Scholar Awards Brad Zuchero Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University, selected to receive the 2018 McKnight Scholar Award.
Image Press coverage | May 25 2018 The New York Times Train delays, the new subway plan and the perception of time Time is a funny thing. All minutes are 60 seconds long. But some last longer than others. And there may be no minute that lasts as long or causes as much distress as a minute spent on an unmoving New York City subway train, somewhere in a dark tunnel, ber
Image Press coverage | May 24 2018 The New York Times Using medicine and science to improve the quality of life Medical and scientific breakthroughs, some with ethical concerns, are being used to help people.
Image Press coverage | May 15 2018 The Washington Post This is why it’s so hard to help with your kid’s math homework The simple answer to why math education has changed, “Common Core State Standards,” is only part of the story.
