Featured News Image Featured News | Jul 1 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Molecular toolmakers share glimpses of the future of brain science At the 2024 Neuro-omics Symposium, early-stage research funded by Wu Tsai Neuro's Big Ideas in Neuroscience program revealed exciting progress at the intersection of genomics and AI Image Featured News | Jun 27 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The Worm Has Turned: DIY Lab Platform Evaluates New Molecules in Minutes New software developed by the NeuroPlant Big Ideas in Neuroscience initiative turns an ordinary flatbed scanner and collection of nematode worms into a DIY platform to sniff out beneficial and harmful plant-based molecules 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. News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroDiscovery NeuroHealth NeuroEngineering News TypeResearch news Featured News Podcast episodes Institute News Researcher profiles Knight Initiative news Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Research news | Jun 22 2017 Stanford News Stanford researchers say U.S. policies on drugs and addiction could use a dose o... Legal and illegal drugs are killing more people than AIDS ever did, yet the nation’s drug policies are based on unproven assumptions about addiction. Neuroscience could help shape more effective policies and save lives. Image Research news | Feb 22 2017 Stanford News Brain scans could help doctors predict adolescents’ problem drug use before it s... Impulsive behavior in teens can go hand in hand with drug use, but the link is weak and doesn’t necessarily predict future behavior. A Stanford psychologist and colleagues think they can do better, using images of the brain. Image Institute News | Feb 8 2017 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford neuroscientists take their Big Ideas on decision-making, neurotechnolog... The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is elevating three research programs to become the flagship Big Ideas collaborations focusing on brain rejuvenation, neurotechnology and decision-making. Image Research news | Aug 17 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center 5 Questions: Robert Malenka on Ecstasy research In a Q&A, the neuroscientist discusses the reasons for continued basic and clinical research on an illegal drug scientists call 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA, and partiers call Ecstasy. Research news | Jul 14 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope The two faces of MDMA: Drug of abuse, and promising therapeutic and research too... MDMA is a drug of abuse, but also a promising therapeutic and research tool according to Stanford brain researcher Rob Malenka, MD, PhD. Image Researcher profiles | Apr 20 2016 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute From how we form memories to what drives addiction: A conversation with Robert M... Robert Malenka, the Nancy Friend Pritzer Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, is famous for his discoveries on how neurons in our brain make and store new memories. He is also a pioneer in the field of addiction research Image Research news | Apr 12 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center Low-risk drinking guidelines vary widely among countries Inconsistency among countries about what constitutes a "standard drink" and definitions of low-risk drinking hampers international research and confuses people attempting to drink responsibly. Image Research news | Jan 7 2016 Stanford Report Odds are good that risky gambling choices are influenced by a single brain conne... Whether a person will place a risky bet comes down to a newly discovered tract of neurons spanning two brain regions. The findings could help understand and treat gambling or addiction disorders. Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Next page
Image Featured News | Jul 1 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Molecular toolmakers share glimpses of the future of brain science At the 2024 Neuro-omics Symposium, early-stage research funded by Wu Tsai Neuro's Big Ideas in Neuroscience program revealed exciting progress at the intersection of genomics and AI
Image Featured News | Jun 27 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The Worm Has Turned: DIY Lab Platform Evaluates New Molecules in Minutes New software developed by the NeuroPlant Big Ideas in Neuroscience initiative turns an ordinary flatbed scanner and collection of nematode worms into a DIY platform to sniff out beneficial and harmful plant-based molecules
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 Research news | Jun 22 2017 Stanford News Stanford researchers say U.S. policies on drugs and addiction could use a dose o... Legal and illegal drugs are killing more people than AIDS ever did, yet the nation’s drug policies are based on unproven assumptions about addiction. Neuroscience could help shape more effective policies and save lives.
Image Research news | Feb 22 2017 Stanford News Brain scans could help doctors predict adolescents’ problem drug use before it s... Impulsive behavior in teens can go hand in hand with drug use, but the link is weak and doesn’t necessarily predict future behavior. A Stanford psychologist and colleagues think they can do better, using images of the brain.
Image Institute News | Feb 8 2017 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford neuroscientists take their Big Ideas on decision-making, neurotechnolog... The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is elevating three research programs to become the flagship Big Ideas collaborations focusing on brain rejuvenation, neurotechnology and decision-making.
Image Research news | Aug 17 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center 5 Questions: Robert Malenka on Ecstasy research In a Q&A, the neuroscientist discusses the reasons for continued basic and clinical research on an illegal drug scientists call 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA, and partiers call Ecstasy.
Research news | Jul 14 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope The two faces of MDMA: Drug of abuse, and promising therapeutic and research too... MDMA is a drug of abuse, but also a promising therapeutic and research tool according to Stanford brain researcher Rob Malenka, MD, PhD.
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 20 2016 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute From how we form memories to what drives addiction: A conversation with Robert M... Robert Malenka, the Nancy Friend Pritzer Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, is famous for his discoveries on how neurons in our brain make and store new memories. He is also a pioneer in the field of addiction research
Image Research news | Apr 12 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center Low-risk drinking guidelines vary widely among countries Inconsistency among countries about what constitutes a "standard drink" and definitions of low-risk drinking hampers international research and confuses people attempting to drink responsibly.
Image Research news | Jan 7 2016 Stanford Report Odds are good that risky gambling choices are influenced by a single brain conne... Whether a person will place a risky bet comes down to a newly discovered tract of neurons spanning two brain regions. The findings could help understand and treat gambling or addiction disorders.