Neuroscience News

Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt takes us inside a new Big Ideas in Neuroscience project aimed at understanding how the gut tells the brain we're sick – and what that might reveal about chronic fatigue and long COVID.

Ten innovative postdoctoral scholars will pursue creative approaches to advance neuroscience and brain resilience research

Wu Tsai Neuro Institute Scholars Todd Coleman and Julia Kaltschmidt are creating detailed maps of the enteric nervous system to understand the influence synchronization between the gut and the brain has on disease

From studying post-viral fatigue to engineering transparent mouse brains, round three of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s Big Ideas grants will push the bounds of what’s possible

The 12th annual Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Symposium explored how our brains and bodies communicate—and what that means for our health and well-being

Organizers of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s 12th annual symposium share exciting new discoveries from the frontiers of the “gut-brain axis.”

Our brains and digestive tracts are in constant communication.

A collaboration between Institute Faculty Scholars Julia Kaltschmidt and Todd Coleman has identified a key step in nervous system control over gut motility, opening new opportunities for understanding GI disorders in premature infants

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.

We are proud to welcome the 2024 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars — ten young scientists pursuing novel, multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding the workings of the brain.

Researchers with Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute aim to improve gut motility and health outcomes for preterm babies through foundational research on the nervous system of the gut, called the enteric nervous system (ENS).

Your gut has up to 600 million neurons — as many as a fruit bat's brain. Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt explains why we sometimes call it our "second brain."