Featured News Image Research news | Nov 26 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How to rewire a fruit fly brain Wu Tsai Neuro researchers reprogrammed fruit fly brain development and behavior using new discoveries about how attractive and repulsive molecules build neural circuits Image News Features | Nov 21 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: A key protein may point toward new diagnostics and treatments for ALS and d... 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 Image Research news | Nov 10 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience A new ultrasound technique could help aging and injured brains Neuroradiologist Raag Airan and his lab have found a non-invasive, drug-free method to help clean the brain, reduce inflammation, and treat disease—and with Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience support, they plan to test it in people soon. Image Knight Initiative news | Nov 5 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience ‘Mind-blowing’ new perspectives on brain health and disease The Knight Initiative’s Fall Symposium featured researchers building new molecular atlases of the brain alongside new updates on neurodegenerative disease and what might be done about it. 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Image Podcast episodes | 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 Press coverage | Jun 5 2024 Neuroscience News Brain Plasticity’s Dark Side: New Insights into Addiction Mechanisms Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and team discovered that adaptive myelination, a form of brain plasticity, contributes to drug addiction. A single morphine dose in mice triggered myelination in reward-related brain circuits, reinforcing drug-seeking behavior. Blocking this myelination prevented addiction, highlighting potential new treatment strategies. Image Research news | Jun 5 2024 Stanford Medicine Myelination in the brain may be key to ‘learning’ opioid addiction A study in mice by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and team has found that the process of adaptive myelination, which helps the brain learn new skills, can also promote addiction to opioids. Image Researcher profiles | Jan 12 2024 Stanford Report Nobel laureates and MacArthur fellows offer lessons in perseverance Students learned how behind every success is a story of perseverance, frustration, and failure in a fall quarter class featuring Stanford’s own Nobel laureates and MacArthur “genius” fellows, including Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje. Image Research news | Jan 3 2024 The Scientist Hijacking Neurons’ Adaptive Abilities With limited therapeutic options available, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and team have turned to studying the growth patterns of brain tumors that occur in glial cells to identify new treatment avenues. Image Research news | Dec 19 2023 Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine’s top scientific advancements of 2023 Members of Wu Tsai Neuro and the Knight Initiative were selected by the editors and writers of Stanford Communications for the most significant scientific achievements covered by Stanford Medicine in 2023. Image Podcast episodes | May 11 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Brain Fog In this episode, neuroscientist and pediatric oncologist Michelle Monje helps us understand the mystery of the persistent "brain fog" that often plagues Long COVID patients. Image Awards and honors | Oct 20 2021 Stanford Medicine Michelle Monje elected to National Academy of Medicine Wu Tsai Neuro faculty affiliate Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, was one of four Stanford Medicine faculty members elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in 2021. Image Research news | Dec 6 2018 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute ‘Chemo brain’ caused by malfunction in three types of brain cells Three types of cells in the brain’s white matter show interwoven problems during the cognitive dysfunction that follows treatment with the cancer drug methotrexate, Stanford neuroscientists have found.
Image Research news | Nov 26 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How to rewire a fruit fly brain Wu Tsai Neuro researchers reprogrammed fruit fly brain development and behavior using new discoveries about how attractive and repulsive molecules build neural circuits
Image News Features | Nov 21 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: A key protein may point toward new diagnostics and treatments for ALS and d... 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
Image Research news | Nov 10 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience A new ultrasound technique could help aging and injured brains Neuroradiologist Raag Airan and his lab have found a non-invasive, drug-free method to help clean the brain, reduce inflammation, and treat disease—and with Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience support, they plan to test it in people soon.
Image Knight Initiative news | Nov 5 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience ‘Mind-blowing’ new perspectives on brain health and disease The Knight Initiative’s Fall Symposium featured researchers building new molecular atlases of the brain alongside new updates on neurodegenerative disease and what might be done about it.
Image News Features | Jan 23 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 Podcast episodes | Aug 15 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How the brain helps cancers grow This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with Michelle Monje about her discovery that many cancers depend on nervous system innervation; she also discusses opportunities for novel therapies.
Image Podcast episodes | 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 Press coverage | Jun 5 2024 Neuroscience News Brain Plasticity’s Dark Side: New Insights into Addiction Mechanisms Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and team discovered that adaptive myelination, a form of brain plasticity, contributes to drug addiction. A single morphine dose in mice triggered myelination in reward-related brain circuits, reinforcing drug-seeking behavior. Blocking this myelination prevented addiction, highlighting potential new treatment strategies.
Image Research news | Jun 5 2024 Stanford Medicine Myelination in the brain may be key to ‘learning’ opioid addiction A study in mice by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and team has found that the process of adaptive myelination, which helps the brain learn new skills, can also promote addiction to opioids.
Image Researcher profiles | Jan 12 2024 Stanford Report Nobel laureates and MacArthur fellows offer lessons in perseverance Students learned how behind every success is a story of perseverance, frustration, and failure in a fall quarter class featuring Stanford’s own Nobel laureates and MacArthur “genius” fellows, including Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje.
Image Research news | Jan 3 2024 The Scientist Hijacking Neurons’ Adaptive Abilities With limited therapeutic options available, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and team have turned to studying the growth patterns of brain tumors that occur in glial cells to identify new treatment avenues.
Image Research news | Dec 19 2023 Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine’s top scientific advancements of 2023 Members of Wu Tsai Neuro and the Knight Initiative were selected by the editors and writers of Stanford Communications for the most significant scientific achievements covered by Stanford Medicine in 2023.
Image Podcast episodes | May 11 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Brain Fog In this episode, neuroscientist and pediatric oncologist Michelle Monje helps us understand the mystery of the persistent "brain fog" that often plagues Long COVID patients.
Image Awards and honors | Oct 20 2021 Stanford Medicine Michelle Monje elected to National Academy of Medicine Wu Tsai Neuro faculty affiliate Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, was one of four Stanford Medicine faculty members elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in 2021.
Image Research news | Dec 6 2018 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute ‘Chemo brain’ caused by malfunction in three types of brain cells Three types of cells in the brain’s white matter show interwoven problems during the cognitive dysfunction that follows treatment with the cancer drug methotrexate, Stanford neuroscientists have found.
