Neuroscience News

Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage spike after age 35. Wu Tsai Neuro postdoc Blake Laham suspects neural signaling in the uterus is partly to blame

Studying brain scan data from individuals—not group averages—reveals key brain-function differences in children who struggle with goal-oriented tasks, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Vinod Menon and colleagues

The Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate, Pfeiffer and Herold Families Professor and professor, and chair of biochemistry in the School of Medicine studies the genetic and epigenetic control of chromosome organization, function, and inheritance

Faculty Scholar Paul Nuyujukian spoke to NPR's Short Wave podcast about his work on brain-machine interfaces and neurological disease

Researchers who videotaped every moment in the lives of 81 African turquoise killfish gleaned intriguing insights into the aging process that may also apply to humans

Knight Initiative researchers created a new atlas of aging in the killifish tracks how organs change over time, revealing processes implicated in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases

The research showed that chronic pain is controlled by an entirely separate system than acute pain

The Rosenkranz Aging and Rejuvenation Seed Grant Program announced eight innovative new research projects with additional support from the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

The snakes’ unique feeding behavior offers new clues about the gut-brain axis—and hints of a potential weight-loss drug with fewer side effects than GLP-1 drugs

A conversation about microbes, memory, and our internal senses with Wu Tsai Neuro gut–brain expert Christoph Thaiss

After building a Truman Show experiment, scientists were able to predict the lifespans of their 81 subjects

Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Steering Committee member Anne Brunet explores what aging really is, how lifestyle choices might influence longevity, and the promising frontiers of aging research

Aging causes changes in gut bacteria in mice, hampering communication between the intestines and the brain—but restoring this connection helped old mice form memories as well as young animals

Knight Initiative scientists tracked every moment of the life of the African turquoise killifish, showing that behavior alone can forecast whether an animal will live a long or short life

We speak with Wu Tsai Neuro postdocs Claire Bedbrook and Ravi Nath about their new study that found that an animal's lifespan can be predicted surprisingly early by just looking at their behavior

The Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery Prizes will give Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong and Knight Initiative-supported researcher Pascal Geldsetzer $750,000 each over three years to develop research on neurodegenerative diseases.