Featured News Image news | May 9 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics Inside Out: How do LSD and psilocybin alter our perceptions? (Part ... This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about how psychedelics work in the brain. How do tiny quantities of these chemicals alter our perception of reality? And what does that say about... reality? Image news | May 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neuro Exploring MRI's role in neuroscience research on model organisms Recognizing the potential for wider application in small-animal neuroscience research, the Neurosciences Preclinical Imaging Lab (NPIL) at Wu Tsai Neuro hosted its 3rd annual symposium and named the recipients of its Pilot Grants. Image news | May 2 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about studies that could change our understanding of the renaissance in psychedelic medicine Image news | Apr 15 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience sheds light on childhood gut disorders The recent discovery that intestinal neurons normally self-organize into a striped pattern around the time of birth could help explain wide-ranging GI disorders in children, say Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt and her team News Filter & Sort Sort by Theme (-) NeuroDiscovery NeuroHealth NeuroEngineering News Type (-) Research news Featured News Knight Initiative news Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image news | Mar 25 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuronal and synaptic genes expanded in size and diversity during evolution Wu Tsai Neuro research suggests giant genes could hold the key to the development of complex nervous systems across the animal kingdom. Image news | Mar 22 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Unlocking the secrets of myelin repair New research supported by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute could lead to novel treatments for demyelinating disorders such as multiple sclerosis. Image news | Mar 20 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Alzheimer’s risk gene tied to fatty blobs in brain’s immune cells Recent research supported by the Knight Initiative has identified a link between lipid droplets in the microglia to a known genetic risk factor for AD. Image news | Mar 19 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s biomarkers show promise for early diagnosis Two new studies supported by the Knight Initiative highlight groundbreaking new early biomarkers for the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative disease. Image news | Mar 14 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The neural switch that keeps us grounded as we daydream Dentate spikes in the rodent hippocampus support learning by linking introspective thoughts and memories with current circumstances, according to new research supported by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. Image news | Feb 22 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Knight-funded research uncovers gene mutations that may prevent Alzheimer’s Dise... Disabling the notorious APOE4 gene might protect against the disease, according to research from Michael Greicius and team. Image news | Dec 13 2023 UCSF Neurosurgery The intricate machinery of human speech In a first-of-its-kind study, faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams and colleagues at UCSF give us an unprecedented view into how the brain analyzes the sounds in words Image news | Oct 30 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Surprising finding links sleep, brain insulation, and neurodegeneration Erin Gibson’s lab has discovered that the precursor cells to myelin-producing oligodendrocytes are regulated by the circadian system in mice. When that regulation breaks down, the researchers saw abnormal myelination — but also fragmented sleep. Pagination Previous page Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page
Image news | May 9 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics Inside Out: How do LSD and psilocybin alter our perceptions? (Part ... This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about how psychedelics work in the brain. How do tiny quantities of these chemicals alter our perception of reality? And what does that say about... reality?
Image news | May 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neuro Exploring MRI's role in neuroscience research on model organisms Recognizing the potential for wider application in small-animal neuroscience research, the Neurosciences Preclinical Imaging Lab (NPIL) at Wu Tsai Neuro hosted its 3rd annual symposium and named the recipients of its Pilot Grants.
Image news | May 2 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about studies that could change our understanding of the renaissance in psychedelic medicine
Image news | Apr 15 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience sheds light on childhood gut disorders The recent discovery that intestinal neurons normally self-organize into a striped pattern around the time of birth could help explain wide-ranging GI disorders in children, say Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt and her team
Image news | Mar 25 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuronal and synaptic genes expanded in size and diversity during evolution Wu Tsai Neuro research suggests giant genes could hold the key to the development of complex nervous systems across the animal kingdom.
Image news | Mar 22 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Unlocking the secrets of myelin repair New research supported by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute could lead to novel treatments for demyelinating disorders such as multiple sclerosis.
Image news | Mar 20 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Alzheimer’s risk gene tied to fatty blobs in brain’s immune cells Recent research supported by the Knight Initiative has identified a link between lipid droplets in the microglia to a known genetic risk factor for AD.
Image news | Mar 19 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s biomarkers show promise for early diagnosis Two new studies supported by the Knight Initiative highlight groundbreaking new early biomarkers for the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative disease.
Image news | Mar 14 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The neural switch that keeps us grounded as we daydream Dentate spikes in the rodent hippocampus support learning by linking introspective thoughts and memories with current circumstances, according to new research supported by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.
Image news | Feb 22 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Knight-funded research uncovers gene mutations that may prevent Alzheimer’s Dise... Disabling the notorious APOE4 gene might protect against the disease, according to research from Michael Greicius and team.
Image news | Dec 13 2023 UCSF Neurosurgery The intricate machinery of human speech In a first-of-its-kind study, faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams and colleagues at UCSF give us an unprecedented view into how the brain analyzes the sounds in words
Image news | Oct 30 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Surprising finding links sleep, brain insulation, and neurodegeneration Erin Gibson’s lab has discovered that the precursor cells to myelin-producing oligodendrocytes are regulated by the circadian system in mice. When that regulation breaks down, the researchers saw abnormal myelination — but also fragmented sleep.