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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 The Transmitter Dopamine "gas pedal" and serotonin "brake" team up to accelerate learning Mice learn fastest and most reliably when they experience an increase in dopamine paired with an inhibition of serotonin in their nucleus accumbens, a new st
Image Researcher profiles | Mar 7 2025 The Transmitter This paper changed my life: Bill Newsome reflects on a quadrilogy of classic vis... The 1970s papers from Goldberg and Wurtz made ambitious mechanistic studies of higher brain functions seem feasible.
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 | Jan 27 2025 Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences Liqun Luo wins National Academy of Sciences neuroscience award Liqun Luo, the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor and professor in the Department of Bio
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Dec 13 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute 2024 Neuroscience Research in Review Join us as we look back on some of the key studies we covered here at Wu Tsai Neuro in 2024 to give a (very partial) overview of the impact of our community’s research efforts this past year
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 Research news | Nov 25 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Dopamine and serotonin work in opposition to shape learning New research from the Malenka lab reveals that reward-based learning requires the two neuromodulators to balance one another's influence.
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 Researcher profiles | Sep 30 2024 Stanford Report Getting to know Stanford’s first data science faculty Laura Gwilliams, a Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar, and Brian Hie are the inaugural faculty of Stanford Data Science.
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 Wu Tsai Neuro News | Sep 22 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Research brings together Stanford undergrads and community college fellows Stanford undergraduates and local community college students showcased their summer research projects at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, highlighting efforts to introduce students to neuroscience research for the first time.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Sep 19 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Welcoming the 2024 NeuroTech Trainees The 2024 NeuroTech trainees at Wu Tsai Neuro are advancing neurotechnology through interdisciplinary research and collaboration, combining expertise from fields like bioengineering, computer science, and electrical engineering.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Sep 19 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Meet the 2024 Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology Student Members Introducing the 2024 MBCT student members, PhD students advancing neuroscience through interdisciplinary research that spans psychology, biology, engineering, and more.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Sep 19 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Introducing the 2024 Wu Tsai Neuro Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows Meet the 2024 Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows supported by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute who are driving cutting-edge, interdisciplinary neuroscience research.
