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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 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 Podcast episodes | Dec 5 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How to live in a world without free will This week on the podcast, Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky lays out his view we should all stop judging one another (and ourselves) for behaviors we can't control
Image Podcast episodes | Nov 21 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The power of psychedelics meets the power of placebo We're diving back into the world of psychedelic medicine with anesthesiologists Boris Heifets and Theresa Lii, who share intriguing new data that sheds light on how ketamine and placebo effects may interact in treating depression.
Image Podcast episodes | Nov 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Seeing sounds, tasting colors (re-release) Today, we are going back into the archives for a conversation with neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and best-selling author David Eagleman about the science of synesthesia. If you don't know what that is, you're about to find out.
Image Podcast episodes | Oct 24 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The BRAIN Initiative: the national vision for the future of neuroscience is now ... This week, we talk with our founding director, Bill Newsome, about the 10-year legacy of the NIH BRAIN Initiative and the uncertainty for the future brought on by this year's dramatic funding cuts.
Image Podcast episodes | Oct 10 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The cannabinoids within: how marijuana hijacks an ancient signaling system in th... This week we are talking with Stanford neuroscientist Ivan Soltesz about endocannabinoids, illuminating the "day job" of these unusual neurotransmitters and how they may be hijacked by cannabinoid drugs such as THC and CBD.
Image Podcast episodes | Sep 26 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Memory Palaces: the science of mental time travel and the brain's GPS system (re... This week we are talking with Stanford neurobiologist Lisa Giocomo exploring the intersection of memory, navigation and the boundaries we create between ourselves and the world around us.
Image Podcast episodes | Sep 12 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Why new Alzheimer's drugs may not work for patients This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with Stanford neurologist Mike Greicius about his critique of new amyloid-clearing Alzheimer's drugs, and his optimism for the next wave of therapies currently in development.
Image Podcast episodes | Aug 29 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Depression's distinctive fingerprints in the brain This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with Leanne Williams about distinctive biotypes of depression revealed by brain imaging and AI, and the implications for therapy and mental health.
Image Podcast episodes | Aug 15 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How the brain helps cancers grow This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with Michelle Monje about her discovery that many cancers depend on nervous system innervation; she also discusses opportunities for novel therapies.
Image Podcast episodes | Aug 1 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Unraveling Timothy Syndrome: the new science of human brain development This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with Sergiu Pasca about using new techniques for growing human brain tissue in the lab to solve a rare neurological disorder.
Image Podcast episodes | Jul 18 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How VR could help treat depression This week, we talk with "radical behaviorist" Kim Bullock about how virtual reality technologies could serve as behavioral therapeutics to enhance psychotherapy.
Image Podcast episodes | Jul 4 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Electronic skin and the future of wearable technology This week, we talk with Zhenan Bao about reverse engineering the remarkable properties of human skin to design new wearable devices for neuroscience.
Image Podcast episodes | Jun 20 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How a new kind of brain plasticity could help make sense of addiction This week, we talk with Michelle Monje and Rob Malenka about recent findings on the role of myelin plasticity in opioid addiction.
Image Podcast episodes | Jun 6 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Our plastic brains: learning, memory and aging with Carla Shatz (Rerelease) Why do our brains get worse at learning as we get older, and what can we do about it? Institute affiliate Carla Shatz discusses our brain's capacity for change on this podcast episode.
Image Podcast episodes | May 23 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience and AI: What artificial intelligence teaches us about the brain (an... This week, we talk with Surya Ganguli about the neuroscience of AI, and how advances in artificial intelligence could teach us about our own brains.
