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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 Stanford Medicine Brain-cell "periodic table" for psychiatric disorders reveals new schizophrenia ... Stanford Medicine research demonstrates a new way of detecting cells implicated in the malfunctions that cause psychiatric diseases.
Image News Features | Mar 7 2025 Stanford Medicine Magazine Practice doesn't always make perfect: Seizures worsen by co-opting one of the br... Juliet Knowles's research has recently shown that the brain can use adaptive myelination to perfect “skills” that are actually pathological, such as having s
Image Research news | Mar 7 2025 Stanford Report Researchers design new compound with promise to treat chronic pain Stanford researchers have created a compound that relieves multiple types of pain in mice without building tolerance or causing psychoactive side effects.
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 Research news | Jan 13 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford researchers launch free VR app preparing kids for MRI scans Stanford University researchers have released a groundbreaking virtual reality (VR) application designed to help children prepare f
Image Research news | Dec 19 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Blight or Benefit: How Cellular Neighbors Shape the Aging Brain Researchers at Stanford’s Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience merge spatial transcriptomics and AI to uncover how local cellular interactions drive brain aging and resilience
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 Press coverage | Nov 25 2024 Washington Post Inside your body, aging unfolds at remarkably different rates New research shows aging is not a uniform process. Parts of our bodies start aging earlier than others, right down to our organs and cells.
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 Research news | Nov 12 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Unlocking the secrets of ketosis With Knight Initiative support, Stanford researchers uncover a biochemical “off-ramp” in ketosis, rewriting our understanding of how ketosis influences metabolism.
Image Research news | Oct 2 2024 Stanford Medicine Study hints at ways to generate new neurons in old brains Supported by the Big Ideas in Neuroscience program, research from the Brunet lab suggests the possibility of designing pharmaceutical or genetic therapies to turn on new neuron production in old or injured brains.
Image Press coverage | Sep 25 2024 NPR This researcher wants to expand treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Carolyn Rodriguez directs the Stanford OCD Research Lab.
Image Research news | Sep 20 2024 Scope blog New tech could improve care for Parkinson’s patients With support from a Wu Tsai Neuro seed grant, faculty affiliate Helen Bronte-Stewart and her team have developed a simple, portable device to help Parkinson'
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Sep 13 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Synthetic neuroscience grants promote transformative brain tech Research projects funded by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute's Synthetic Neuroscience Grants will advance molecular and tissue engineering tools to more precisely study and interact with brain circuits.
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 Research news | Sep 6 2024 Stanford Report Cognitive behavioral therapy for depression can lead to lasting changes in the b... New research by Institute affiliate Leanne Williams adds to the evidence that choosing treatment based on the neurological underpinnings of a patient’s depre