Neuroscience News

The Global Neurodegeneration Proteomics Consortium gathered a trove of data on potential signs of neurological disease—and researchers including Knight Initiative director Tony Wyss-Coray are already using it to make new discoveries.

An interdisciplinary team of Wu Tsai Neuro scientists working on balls of human neurons called organoids wanted to scale up their efforts and take on important new questions. The solution was all around them.

Research from the Giocomo lab finds that mice create neural maps of the location of rewards, distinct from the well-known hippocampal maps of an animal's location in space.

Scientists found that humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to negative sensory inputs – offering insight into emotion and potential links to neuropsychiatric disorders.

Knight Initiative researchers discover a biomarker in spinal fluid that could help forecast Alzheimer’s progression and improve clinical trials.

By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute have identified how a balance of innate structure and flexible learning produces our remarkably organized visual brains.

New research from the Malenka lab reveals that reward-based learning requires the two neuromodulators to balance one another's influence.

A collaboration between Institute Faculty Scholars Julia Kaltschmidt and Todd Coleman has identified a key step in nervous system control over gut motility, opening new opportunities for understanding GI disorders in premature infants

Institute affiliates Brad Zuchero, Justin Du Bois and colleagues discovered that neurons require signaling from glia to become fully excitable, rather than by becoming excitable by default.

Groundbreaking research supported by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute deepens our understanding of how the amino acid taurine may help reduce appetite and prevent obesity.

New software developed by the NeuroPlant Big Ideas in Neuroscience initiative turns an ordinary flatbed scanner and collection of nematode worms into a DIY platform to sniff out both beneficial and harmful plant-based molecules.

Researchers found increased white matter development in children from higher-performing schools.

Wu Tsai Neuro research suggests giant genes could hold the key to the development of complex nervous systems across the animal kingdom.

New research supported by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute could lead to novel treatments for demyelinating disorders such as multiple sclerosis.

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.

Two new studies supported by the Knight Initiative highlight groundbreaking new early biomarkers for the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative disease.