Featured News Image news | May 9 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics Inside Out: How do LSD and psilocybin alter our perceptions? (Part ... This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about how psychedelics work in the brain. How do tiny quantities of these chemicals alter our perception of reality? And what does that say about... reality? Image news | May 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neuro Exploring MRI's role in neuroscience research on model organisms Recognizing the potential for wider application in small-animal neuroscience research, the Neurosciences Preclinical Imaging Lab (NPIL) at Wu Tsai Neuro hosted its 3rd annual symposium and named the recipients of its Pilot Grants. Image news | May 2 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about studies that could change our understanding of the renaissance in psychedelic medicine Image news | Apr 15 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience sheds light on childhood gut disorders The recent discovery that intestinal neurons normally self-organize into a striped pattern around the time of birth could help explain wide-ranging GI disorders in children, say Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt and her team News Filter & Sort Sort by Theme (-) NeuroHealth NeuroDiscovery NeuroEngineering News TypeResearch news Press coverage Featured News Podcast episodes Institute News Knight Initiative news Researcher profiles Awards and honors Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image news | Aug 26 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Evolution of octopus and squid brains could shed light on origins of intell... By studying the independent evolution of the cephalopod nervous system, researchers like Matt McCoy seek to look past the differences to see common features that could teach us fundamental truths about the evolution of intelligence itself. Image news | Jul 29 2022 Scope Blog Can we rejuvenate aging brains? Tony Wyss-Coray and colleagues have turned up substances in blood that can accelerate or slow down the brain-aging clock. They've identified proteins on blood-vessel surfaces through which some of these molecules can act on the brain, despite the existenc Image news | Jul 22 2022 Stanford Medicine 5 Questions: Rob Malenka on basic research, psychedelic drugs and psychiatric di... Robert Malenka’s early research on the molecular mechanisms underlying memory and learning has led to an understanding of their role in psychiatric disorders including addiction, depression and autism spectrum disorder. Image news | Jun 20 2022 Wu Tsai Neuro Brain imaging links stimulant-use relapse to distinct nerve pathway A new study by scientists with the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s NeuroChoice Initiative reveals that relapse may be linked to quite different brain circuits than addiction itself. Image news | Jun 15 2022 The New York Times Why does a hard workout make you less hungry? In a study done with mice, horses and people, Jonathan Long and colleagues found clues as to which types of exercise suppress appetite and why. Image news | Jun 11 2022 Read more at The Wall Street Journal Tech addiction or habit? 5 ways to assess your social-media use Anna Lembke explains how compulsively checking feeds, never feeling satisfied and being anxious without your phone are clues that your social-media use isn’t healthy. Image news | Jun 1 2022 Nature News Guardians of the brain: How a special immune system protects our grey matter Schwartz’s team and others have amassed a large body of evidence showing that immune cells do, indeed, have a significant role in the brain, even in the absence of autoimmune disease Image news | May 31 2022 Stanford Medicine A rare mutation protects against Alzheimer's disease, Stanford-led research find... An international collaboration led by Michael Greicius, MD, professor of neurology at Stanford Medicine, has found a rare mutation that protects against Alzheimer’s in individuals who are genetically predisposed to the disease. Pagination Previous page Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Next page
Image news | May 9 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics Inside Out: How do LSD and psilocybin alter our perceptions? (Part ... This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about how psychedelics work in the brain. How do tiny quantities of these chemicals alter our perception of reality? And what does that say about... reality?
Image news | May 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neuro Exploring MRI's role in neuroscience research on model organisms Recognizing the potential for wider application in small-animal neuroscience research, the Neurosciences Preclinical Imaging Lab (NPIL) at Wu Tsai Neuro hosted its 3rd annual symposium and named the recipients of its Pilot Grants.
Image news | May 2 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about studies that could change our understanding of the renaissance in psychedelic medicine
Image news | Apr 15 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience sheds light on childhood gut disorders The recent discovery that intestinal neurons normally self-organize into a striped pattern around the time of birth could help explain wide-ranging GI disorders in children, say Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt and her team
Image news | Aug 26 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Evolution of octopus and squid brains could shed light on origins of intell... By studying the independent evolution of the cephalopod nervous system, researchers like Matt McCoy seek to look past the differences to see common features that could teach us fundamental truths about the evolution of intelligence itself.
Image news | Jul 29 2022 Scope Blog Can we rejuvenate aging brains? Tony Wyss-Coray and colleagues have turned up substances in blood that can accelerate or slow down the brain-aging clock. They've identified proteins on blood-vessel surfaces through which some of these molecules can act on the brain, despite the existenc
Image news | Jul 22 2022 Stanford Medicine 5 Questions: Rob Malenka on basic research, psychedelic drugs and psychiatric di... Robert Malenka’s early research on the molecular mechanisms underlying memory and learning has led to an understanding of their role in psychiatric disorders including addiction, depression and autism spectrum disorder.
Image news | Jun 20 2022 Wu Tsai Neuro Brain imaging links stimulant-use relapse to distinct nerve pathway A new study by scientists with the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s NeuroChoice Initiative reveals that relapse may be linked to quite different brain circuits than addiction itself.
Image news | Jun 15 2022 The New York Times Why does a hard workout make you less hungry? In a study done with mice, horses and people, Jonathan Long and colleagues found clues as to which types of exercise suppress appetite and why.
Image news | Jun 11 2022 Read more at The Wall Street Journal Tech addiction or habit? 5 ways to assess your social-media use Anna Lembke explains how compulsively checking feeds, never feeling satisfied and being anxious without your phone are clues that your social-media use isn’t healthy.
Image news | Jun 1 2022 Nature News Guardians of the brain: How a special immune system protects our grey matter Schwartz’s team and others have amassed a large body of evidence showing that immune cells do, indeed, have a significant role in the brain, even in the absence of autoimmune disease
Image news | May 31 2022 Stanford Medicine A rare mutation protects against Alzheimer's disease, Stanford-led research find... An international collaboration led by Michael Greicius, MD, professor of neurology at Stanford Medicine, has found a rare mutation that protects against Alzheimer’s in individuals who are genetically predisposed to the disease.