Neuroscience News

A brain region specialized for recognizing text is smaller or absent in kids with dyslexia, but tutoring partly closes the gap

We speak with cognitive scientist Vinod Menon about the brain networks behind day dreaming, rumination, and our sense of self

Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray and others talked to Nature Aging about aging research

Unlike chronological age, biological age can change and is a reflection of how your body's cells, tissues, and organs are functioning and aging

Neural organoids have been revealing 'bombshell secrets about brain development.' But what are they?

From studying post-viral fatigue to engineering transparent mouse brains, round three of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s Big Ideas grants will push the bounds of what’s possible

Researchers assessed volunteers’ brain activity while they listened to stories, showing that strokes disrupt how the brain retains speech sounds.

A recent meeting gathered scientists, ethicists, patient advocates and more to discuss organoid ethics.

Researchers studying the human brain shared a lot of fascinating research last year, including a study from Wu Tsai Neuro scientists who replicated the brain's pain circuits.

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

We speak with neurologist Katrin Andreasson about new links between inflammation, metabolism and new hopes for treating neurodegeneration

Join us as we look back on some of the key studies we covered here at Wu Tsai Neuro and the Knight Initiative in 2025 to give a (very partial) overview of the impact of our community’s research efforts this past year

Stanford Data Science and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute have launched a collaborative hub to accelerate discovery in neuroscience and train the next generation of data-driven neuroscientists

The 12th annual Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Symposium explored how our brains and bodies communicate—and what that means for our health and well-being

Knight Initiative scientists report that biology, behavior, and circumstance all intertwine over a lifetime to influence how organs grow old

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia are devastating neurodegenerative diseases. Knight Initiative postdoc Yi Zeng is working to understand the role a central protein plays in both diseases—and whether it might point toward new diagnostics and treatments