Neuroscience News

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Boris Heifets explains how inducing dreams during anesthesia could offer a more controlled alternative to psychedelic therapies for trauma recovery

Jonathan Long tells us about 100,000 newly discovered peptides, gray-market risks, and the hunt for exercise in a pill

Corey Keller explains TMS and his efforts to better understand and harness this promising approach to psychiatric care

We talk with psychiatrist Leanne Williams about how brain scans could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders

Two immune cell types’ contact plays a major role in aging, and blocking a hormone’s influence on one of those types halted mice’s age-associated decline in multiple organs

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.

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Leanne Williams, who was recently chosen to lead the Precision Mental Health Commission, talks about leveraging a data-driven approach to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions

The program’s 2026 grants advance Wu Tsai Neuro’s mission to transform fundamental neuroscience research into breakthroughs for human health

A $90 million gift from Penny and Phil Knight will extend the work of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

We talk with neuroscientist Boris Heifets about the new federal push to accelerate research on psychedelic drugs for mental health treatment

The teams will tackle questions linked to Parkinson's pathology and mechanisms with an eye toward treatments

Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage spike after age 35. Wu Tsai Neuro postdoc Blake Laham suspects neural signaling in the uterus is partly to blame

Studying brain scan data from individuals—not group averages—reveals key brain-function differences in children who struggle with goal-oriented tasks, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Vinod Menon and colleagues

Shingles vaccines appear to have a protective benefit, Knight Initiative researcher Pascal Geldsetzer has shown.

We talk with neurologist Kathleen Poston about early signs of Parkinson's outside the brain and how they might influence treatment and detection

Stanford Medicine neurologists explain what is known—and still unknown—about the Alzheimer's gender gap