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 ThemeNeuroDiscovery NeuroHealth NeuroEngineering News Type (-) Research news Featured News Knight Initiative news Press coverage Awards and honors Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image news | Nov 27 2023 Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine study reveals why we value things more when they cost us more It may not be smart, but we value something more if we’ve put a lot of sweat equity into it. Affiliates Neir Eshel and Rob Malenka, with support from the Wu Tsai Neuro–funded NeuroChoice Initiative, may have figured out the biochemical basis of why. Image news | Nov 19 2023 USA Today People on meds for depression are showing fewer cases of cancer. Is there a link... Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and other researchers find understanding the interplay between cancer tumors and the nervous system may be essential for winning the war on cancer. Image news | Nov 10 2023 Stanford Medicine Magazine Can we get along? Stanford Medicine queried Wu Tsai Neuro and Knight Initiative affiliates share their expertise on the what the human brain are thinking about humans vs AI. Image news | Nov 10 2023 Stanford Medicine Magazine Where is 'I'? Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Josef Parvizi unveils the surprising role of a small structure sandwiched between the brain’s two hemispheres. Image news | Oct 30 2023 Stanford Chemical Engineering A key to assembling materials on the surface of live neurons When Anqi Zhang arrived at Stanford University as a postdoc, she had just spent six years learning to design and build brain implants: miniscule devices that could record the activity of neurons while causing minimal tissue damage. 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. Image news | Oct 13 2023 Stanford Engineering The future of neuroscience: Karl Deisseroth sheds light on the inner workings of... Karl Deisseroth, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate and pioneering psychiatrist and engineer, discusses the technologies he’s given to the world and the way those technologies are making life better for people across the globe. Image news | Oct 5 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Uncovering a role for plasticity in innate behavior Through an unexpected collaboration, Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary postdoc Renzhi Yang discovered that the brain circuits controlling mouse sexual behavior are far more dynamic than researchers had realized. Pagination Previous page Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Page 6 Page 7 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 | Nov 27 2023 Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine study reveals why we value things more when they cost us more It may not be smart, but we value something more if we’ve put a lot of sweat equity into it. Affiliates Neir Eshel and Rob Malenka, with support from the Wu Tsai Neuro–funded NeuroChoice Initiative, may have figured out the biochemical basis of why.
Image news | Nov 19 2023 USA Today People on meds for depression are showing fewer cases of cancer. Is there a link... Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and other researchers find understanding the interplay between cancer tumors and the nervous system may be essential for winning the war on cancer.
Image news | Nov 10 2023 Stanford Medicine Magazine Can we get along? Stanford Medicine queried Wu Tsai Neuro and Knight Initiative affiliates share their expertise on the what the human brain are thinking about humans vs AI.
Image news | Nov 10 2023 Stanford Medicine Magazine Where is 'I'? Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Josef Parvizi unveils the surprising role of a small structure sandwiched between the brain’s two hemispheres.
Image news | Oct 30 2023 Stanford Chemical Engineering A key to assembling materials on the surface of live neurons When Anqi Zhang arrived at Stanford University as a postdoc, she had just spent six years learning to design and build brain implants: miniscule devices that could record the activity of neurons while causing minimal tissue damage.
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.
Image news | Oct 13 2023 Stanford Engineering The future of neuroscience: Karl Deisseroth sheds light on the inner workings of... Karl Deisseroth, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate and pioneering psychiatrist and engineer, discusses the technologies he’s given to the world and the way those technologies are making life better for people across the globe.
Image news | Oct 5 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Uncovering a role for plasticity in innate behavior Through an unexpected collaboration, Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary postdoc Renzhi Yang discovered that the brain circuits controlling mouse sexual behavior are far more dynamic than researchers had realized.