Featured News Image Awards and honors | Mar 10 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Brain imaging and stimulation technologies receive 2025 Neuroscience:Translate a... Three teams developing promising neurotechnologies with the potential for tremendous impact on human well-being have been named recipients of the 2025 Neuroscience:Translate awards from the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford. Image Podcast episodes | Mar 6 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Does good sleep insulate the brain against Alzheimer's? This week on the podcast, Stanford psychiatry professor Erin Gibson joins us again to share the latest findings on sleep, myelin, and neurodegenerative disease. Image Awards and honors | Feb 19 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Meet the 2025 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars How does the brain wire itself for learning? What molecular mechanisms protect neural circuits during aging? 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Image Awards and honors | Mar 10 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Brain imaging and stimulation technologies receive 2025 Neuroscience:Translate a... Three teams developing promising neurotechnologies with the potential for tremendous impact on human well-being have been named recipients of the 2025 Neuroscience:Translate awards from the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford.
Image Podcast episodes | Mar 6 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Does good sleep insulate the brain against Alzheimer's? This week on the podcast, Stanford psychiatry professor Erin Gibson joins us again to share the latest findings on sleep, myelin, and neurodegenerative disease.
Image Awards and honors | Feb 19 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Meet the 2025 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars How does the brain wire itself for learning? What molecular mechanisms protect neural circuits during aging? These are just some of the research projects by the 2025 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars.
Image Awards and honors | Feb 3 2025 Vilcek Foundation Transparency in Science: Guosong Hong Transforms Deep-Tissue Imaging Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong has been awarded a 2025 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
Image Press coverage | Apr 9 2020 Science Alert A brain stimulation experiment relieved depression in nearly all of its particip... Massaging key parts of the brain with a pulsating magnetic field can do wonders for some living with chronic depression. For others, it falls well short of promising a life without a debilitating mood disorder.
Image Press coverage | Feb 20 2020 The Guardian African killifish may hold key to stopping ageing in humans The curious ability of the African turquoise killifish to press pause on its development could have intriguing implications for human ageing, say researchers
Image Press coverage | Feb 11 2020 ABC News Epilepsy treatment side effect: New insights about the brain People with epilepsy are contributing in surprising ways to research into the brain
Image Press coverage | Feb 10 2020 National Institutes of Health Neural signature identifies people likely to respond to antidepressant medicatio... NIH-funded research used machine learning algorithm to predict individual treatment response.
Image Press coverage | Feb 5 2020 Scientific American Step aside, CRISPR: RNA editing is taking off Making changes to the molecular messengers that create proteins might offer flexible therapies for cancer, pain or high cholesterol, in addition to genetic disorders.
Image Press coverage | Jan 16 2020 WBUR Finding community, empathy online in an era of rage The online world can be isolating — and it can even contribute to rage, depression and extremism. But technology and the web can also be used to foster community, understanding and even spirituality.
Image Press coverage | Jan 8 2020 Nature The quest to decipher how the body’s cells sense touch From a painful pinch to a soft caress, scientists are zooming in on the pressure-sensitive proteins that allow cells to detect tension and pressure.
Image Press coverage | Dec 30 2020 Vice How long is right now? As long as it took you to read that headline. Or shorter. Or it might not exist at all.
Image Press coverage | Dec 16 2019 Scientific American Reclaiming control in the face of Parkinson’s Exercise, including Qigong and Tai Chi, can produce impressive results.
Image Press coverage | Dec 12 2019 Wu Tsai Neuro New methods could help researchers watch neurons compute A pair of advances in brain imaging technology will help neuroscientists track electrical activity in neurons with a new level of clarity.
Image Press coverage | Nov 25 2019 Elemental Medium It’s not the turkey that makes you tired What’s really behind the sleepiness after a hearty Thanksgiving meal.
Image Press coverage | Nov 20 2019 US News Ultrasound may ease common form of hand tremor When drugs fail, another option is deep brain stimulation, or DBS, where electrodes are placed in a specific brain region that helps control muscle activity.
Image Press coverage | Nov 19 2019 The New York Times Will science ever give us a better night’s sleep? We humans spend a third of our lives asleep, oblivious to our surroundings and temporarily paralyzed.
Image Press coverage | Oct 31 2019 Science AAAS New technologies promise sharper artificial vision for blind people In 2014, U.S. regulators approved a futuristic treatment for blindness. The device, called Argus II, sends signals from a glasses-mounted camera to a roughly 3-by-5-millimeter grid of electrodes at the back of eye.
Image Press coverage | Oct 14 2019 Nature Communications Evaluation of integrin αvβ6 cystine knot PET tracers to detect cancer and idiopa... Advances in precision molecular imaging promise to transform our ability to detect, diagnose and treat disease.
Image Press coverage | Sep 24 2019 BBC Sounds UK The science of addiction Addiction specialist Sally Marlow examines the science behind addiction to find out why so many people in Britain are hooked on drugs and alcohol.
