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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 Research news | Mar 7 2025 Stanford Medicine Brain-cell "periodic table" for psychiatric disorders reveals new schizophrenia ... Stanford Medicine research demonstrates a new way of detecting cells implicated in the malfunctions that cause psychiatric diseases.
Image Research news | Mar 7 2025 Stanford Report Researchers design new compound with promise to treat chronic pain Stanford researchers have created a compound that relieves multiple types of pain in mice without building tolerance or causing psychoactive side effects.
Image Research news | Jan 13 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford researchers launch free VR app preparing kids for MRI scans Stanford University researchers have released a groundbreaking virtual reality (VR) application designed to help children prepare f
Image Research news | Dec 19 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Blight or Benefit: How Cellular Neighbors Shape the Aging Brain Researchers at Stanford’s Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience merge spatial transcriptomics and AI to uncover how local cellular interactions drive brain aging and resilience
Image Research news | Nov 12 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Unlocking the secrets of ketosis With Knight Initiative support, Stanford researchers uncover a biochemical “off-ramp” in ketosis, rewriting our understanding of how ketosis influences metabolism.
Image Research news | Oct 2 2024 Stanford Medicine Study hints at ways to generate new neurons in old brains Supported by the Big Ideas in Neuroscience program, research from the Brunet lab suggests the possibility of designing pharmaceutical or genetic therapies to turn on new neuron production in old or injured brains.
Image Research news | Sep 20 2024 Scope blog New tech could improve care for Parkinson’s patients With support from a Wu Tsai Neuro seed grant, faculty affiliate Helen Bronte-Stewart and her team have developed a simple, portable device to help Parkinson'
Image Research news | Sep 6 2024 Stanford Report Cognitive behavioral therapy for depression can lead to lasting changes in the b... New research by Institute affiliate Leanne Williams adds to the evidence that choosing treatment based on the neurological underpinnings of a patient’s depre
Image Research news | Aug 22 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Drugs that improve brain metabolism could help Alzheimer’s patients A team of neuroscientists at the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience have zeroed in on a critical regulator of brain metabolism that may be over-activated in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Image Research news | Aug 15 2024 Stanford Medicine Massive biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s, Stanford Medicine research... Time marches on predictably, but biological aging is anything but constant, according to new research by Michael Snyder and colleagues.
Image Research news | Jun 20 2024 Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine offers gene therapy for a devastating pediatric neurologic dis... Experts at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health helped conduct clinical trials for the new therapy, which gives kids with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, or ALD, a functioning copy of the abnormal gene.
Image Research news | Jun 18 2024 Stanford Report Study finds high blood pressure drug may prevent epilepsy In an analysis of more than 2 million patient records, researchers discovered that people taking angiotensin receptor blockers for high blood pressure were less likely to develop epilepsy.
Image Research news | Jun 17 2024 Stanford Medicine Six distinct types of depression identified in Stanford Medicine-led study Brain imaging, known as functional MRI, combined with machine learning can predict a treatment response based on one’s depression “biotype.”
Image Research news | Jun 5 2024 Stanford Medicine Myelination in the brain may be key to ‘learning’ opioid addiction A study in mice by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and team has found that the process of adaptive myelination, which helps the brain learn new skills, can also promote addiction to opioids.
Image Research news | May 29 2024 Stanford Report Sleep study finds night owl behavior could harm mental health In a new, large-scale study of sleep behavior, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Jamie Zeitzer and team found that night owls don’t thrive late at night.
Image Research news | May 28 2024 Stanford Medicine Study reveals brain mechanisms behind speech impairment in Parkinson’s Most Parkinson’s disease patients struggle with speech problems. New research by Stanford Medicine scientists uncovers the brain connections that could be essential to preserving speech.
