Featured News Image Featured News | 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 Featured News | Jun 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Koret Human Neurosciences Community Lab Announces Inaugural Pilot Grant Awards To advance neuroscience research using EEG and TMS technologies, the Koret Human Neurosciences Community Lab has awarded its inaugural Human Neuroscience Pilot Grants to ten innovative research projects. Image Featured News | May 28 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscientists use AI to simulate how the brain makes sense of the visual world A research team at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has made a major stride in using AI to replicate how the brain organizes sensory information to make sense of the world, opening up new frontiers for virtual neuroscience. Image Featured News | May 25 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute NeuroChoice: Eight years of forging connections to illuminate and empower choice Wu Tsai Neuro's multidisciplinary "Big Ideas in Neuroscience" initiative connected addiction-focused basic research, clinical application, and public policy to create a community across traditional disciplinary boundaries, deepening understanding of decision-making. News Filter & Sort Sort by Theme (-) NeuroDiscovery NeuroHealth NeuroEngineering News TypeResearch news Featured News Press coverage Knight Initiative news Awards and honors Institute News Researcher profiles Podcast episodes Director's messages Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Press coverage | Oct 16 2023 New York Times Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.) There is no free will, according to Robert Sapolsky, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate, Stanford biologist and neurologist, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. Image Director's messages | Oct 12 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Message from the Director: Our first decade Institute Director Kang Shen reflects on the Institute's 10-year anniversary Image Featured 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. Research news | Oct 3 2023 Stanford Report Stanford researchers receive NIH High-Risk, High-Reward grants The interim chief of pediatric neurology at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health discussed progress in preventing seizures among patients with epilepsy, the potential for gene-targeted therapies, and the importance of localizing where seizures are coming f Image Featured News | Oct 2 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Meet our 2023 MBCT and NeuroTech Trainees The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is pleased to welcome our newest graduate student fellows in the neurosciences — including trainees entering the NeuroTech Training Program and Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology (MBCT) Student Membership Program. Image Knight Initiative news | Sep 14 2023 Sarafan ChEM-H Driver of neurodegenerative diseases revealed In searching for how a gene mutation associated with the cell’s recycling center leads to a rare disease, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience and Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Monther Abu-Remaileh and team identified a missing link in neurodegenerative condi Image Knight Initiative news | Aug 21 2023 Neuroscience News Is the Brain’s White Matter an Unexpected Key to Aging and Memory? Funded in part by the Knight Initiative , researchers at the Wyss-Coray Lab have discovered that age-related cognitive decline is most pronounced in the brain’s white matter in a new study. Image Research news | Aug 11 2023 Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine scientists locate key brain circuit containing the seat of mal... Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary scholar Renzhi Yang and colleagues in the lab of institute affiliate Nirao Shah have found that a particular neuronal circuit in male mice is responsible for sexual arousal and for the actions and pleasure that ensue. Pagination Previous page Page 4 Page 5 Current page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Next page
Image Featured News | 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 Featured News | Jun 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Koret Human Neurosciences Community Lab Announces Inaugural Pilot Grant Awards To advance neuroscience research using EEG and TMS technologies, the Koret Human Neurosciences Community Lab has awarded its inaugural Human Neuroscience Pilot Grants to ten innovative research projects.
Image Featured News | May 28 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscientists use AI to simulate how the brain makes sense of the visual world A research team at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has made a major stride in using AI to replicate how the brain organizes sensory information to make sense of the world, opening up new frontiers for virtual neuroscience.
Image Featured News | May 25 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute NeuroChoice: Eight years of forging connections to illuminate and empower choice Wu Tsai Neuro's multidisciplinary "Big Ideas in Neuroscience" initiative connected addiction-focused basic research, clinical application, and public policy to create a community across traditional disciplinary boundaries, deepening understanding of decision-making.
Image Press coverage | Oct 16 2023 New York Times Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.) There is no free will, according to Robert Sapolsky, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate, Stanford biologist and neurologist, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant.
Image Director's messages | Oct 12 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Message from the Director: Our first decade Institute Director Kang Shen reflects on the Institute's 10-year anniversary
Image Featured 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.
Research news | Oct 3 2023 Stanford Report Stanford researchers receive NIH High-Risk, High-Reward grants The interim chief of pediatric neurology at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health discussed progress in preventing seizures among patients with epilepsy, the potential for gene-targeted therapies, and the importance of localizing where seizures are coming f
Image Featured News | Oct 2 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Meet our 2023 MBCT and NeuroTech Trainees The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is pleased to welcome our newest graduate student fellows in the neurosciences — including trainees entering the NeuroTech Training Program and Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology (MBCT) Student Membership Program.
Image Knight Initiative news | Sep 14 2023 Sarafan ChEM-H Driver of neurodegenerative diseases revealed In searching for how a gene mutation associated with the cell’s recycling center leads to a rare disease, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience and Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Monther Abu-Remaileh and team identified a missing link in neurodegenerative condi
Image Knight Initiative news | Aug 21 2023 Neuroscience News Is the Brain’s White Matter an Unexpected Key to Aging and Memory? Funded in part by the Knight Initiative , researchers at the Wyss-Coray Lab have discovered that age-related cognitive decline is most pronounced in the brain’s white matter in a new study.
Image Research news | Aug 11 2023 Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine scientists locate key brain circuit containing the seat of mal... Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary scholar Renzhi Yang and colleagues in the lab of institute affiliate Nirao Shah have found that a particular neuronal circuit in male mice is responsible for sexual arousal and for the actions and pleasure that ensue.