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 ThemeNeuroHealth NeuroDiscovery News TypePodcast episodes Press coverage Research news Featured News Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Podcast episodes | Feb 15 2024 From Our Neurons to Yours OCD and Ketamine This week, we're taking a deep dive with Psychiatrist Carolyn Rodriguez into the neuroscience of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and why a single dose of ketamine can erase the disorder for weeks at a time Image Press coverage | Oct 30 2023 Medscape Ketamine No Better for Depression Than Placebo? Ketamine was no more effective than placebo in reducing depressive symptoms in surgical patients with major depression, results of a new study, which contradict prior research, suggest. 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 Featured News | Jan 9 2023 Wu Tsai Neuro The rebirth of psychedelic medicine Researchers at the the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute are at the forefront of a seismic shift that’s putting a spotlight on once taboo psychedelic substances as a promising new frontier in psychiatric medicine. Press coverage | Aug 29 2018 NPR Ketamine, A Promising Depression Treatment, Seems To Act Like An Opioid A new study suggests that ketamine, an increasingly popular treatment for depression, has something in common with drugs like fentanyl and oxycodone.
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 Podcast episodes | Feb 15 2024 From Our Neurons to Yours OCD and Ketamine This week, we're taking a deep dive with Psychiatrist Carolyn Rodriguez into the neuroscience of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and why a single dose of ketamine can erase the disorder for weeks at a time
Image Press coverage | Oct 30 2023 Medscape Ketamine No Better for Depression Than Placebo? Ketamine was no more effective than placebo in reducing depressive symptoms in surgical patients with major depression, results of a new study, which contradict prior research, suggest.
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 Featured News | Jan 9 2023 Wu Tsai Neuro The rebirth of psychedelic medicine Researchers at the the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute are at the forefront of a seismic shift that’s putting a spotlight on once taboo psychedelic substances as a promising new frontier in psychiatric medicine.
Press coverage | Aug 29 2018 NPR Ketamine, A Promising Depression Treatment, Seems To Act Like An Opioid A new study suggests that ketamine, an increasingly popular treatment for depression, has something in common with drugs like fentanyl and oxycodone.