Featured News 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 Featured News | May 28 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscientists use AI to simulate how the brain makes sense of the visual world A research team at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has made a major stride in using AI to replicate how the brain organizes sensory information to make sense of the world, opening up new frontiers for virtual neuroscience. News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroHealth News TypePress coverage Researcher profiles Podcast episodes Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Podcast episodes | Jan 26 2023 From Our Neurons to Yours Psychedelics and Empathy Rob Malenka answers: "Why are psychiatrists taking a fresh look at MDMA?" Image Researcher profiles | 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. Press coverage | May 11 2022 Fortune Psychedelic drug startups want to help solve the mental health crisis. The stori... Institute affiliate Carolyn Rodriguez explains that traditional treatment methods for depression don’t work for some patients, but psychedelics are showing immense potential as an antidote for those who are suffering. Image Press coverage | Sep 30 2021 Scientific American Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat Physical Pain? LSD and psilocybin increasingly show promise as mental health treatments. Now universities and companies are exploring their use in pain management Press coverage | Oct 5 2020 National Public Radio Scientists Say A Mind-Bending Rhythm In The Brain Can Act Like Ketamine Scientists used light to control the firing of specific cells to artificially create a rhythm in the brain that acted like the drug ketamine
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 Featured News | May 28 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscientists use AI to simulate how the brain makes sense of the visual world A research team at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has made a major stride in using AI to replicate how the brain organizes sensory information to make sense of the world, opening up new frontiers for virtual neuroscience.
Image Podcast episodes | Jan 26 2023 From Our Neurons to Yours Psychedelics and Empathy Rob Malenka answers: "Why are psychiatrists taking a fresh look at MDMA?"
Image Researcher profiles | 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.
Press coverage | May 11 2022 Fortune Psychedelic drug startups want to help solve the mental health crisis. The stori... Institute affiliate Carolyn Rodriguez explains that traditional treatment methods for depression don’t work for some patients, but psychedelics are showing immense potential as an antidote for those who are suffering.
Image Press coverage | Sep 30 2021 Scientific American Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat Physical Pain? LSD and psilocybin increasingly show promise as mental health treatments. Now universities and companies are exploring their use in pain management
Press coverage | Oct 5 2020 National Public Radio Scientists Say A Mind-Bending Rhythm In The Brain Can Act Like Ketamine Scientists used light to control the firing of specific cells to artificially create a rhythm in the brain that acted like the drug ketamine