Neuroscience News

Brief electrical pulses trigger a molecular “reboot and rebound” in sea squirts, pointing toward new strategies to mitigate age-related decline, according to research backed in part by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience.

Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray and colleagues have found a way to measure organs' biological age

We talk with neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector about how the things we see in childhood – words, faces, even cartoon creatures – reorganize our brains

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

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

Dan Jurafsky, Art Owen, and Robert Sapolsky join the scholarly society, which works to promote science for the public good

We talk with psychiatrist Neir Eshel about why rewards are sweeter when we've had to work for them and what this teaches us about our brains' reward systems

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

The Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate, Pfeiffer and Herold Families Professor and professor, and chair of biochemistry in the School of Medicine studies the genetic and epigenetic control of chromosome organization, function, and inheritance

Faculty Scholar Paul Nuyujukian spoke to NPR's Short Wave podcast about his work on brain-machine interfaces and neurological disease

Researchers who videotaped every moment in the lives of 81 African turquoise killfish gleaned intriguing insights into the aging process that may also apply to humans

Knight Initiative researchers created a new atlas of aging in the killifish tracks how organs change over time, revealing processes implicated in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases

The research showed that chronic pain is controlled by an entirely separate system than acute pain

The Rosenkranz Aging and Rejuvenation Seed Grant Program announced eight innovative new research projects with additional support from the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

The snakes’ unique feeding behavior offers new clues about the gut-brain axis—and hints of a potential weight-loss drug with fewer side effects than GLP-1 drugs