Neuroscience News

Leaders of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute reflect on a decade of boundary-breaking study of the brain and what lies ahead for Stanford’s widespread neurosciences community.

Neuroscientists have long been frustrated that they cannot access or examine brain tissue. But by reserve-engineering cells in the lab, Sergiu Pașca can now study brain disorders on a molecular level.

How to know if your organs are ‘older’ than you are, and ways to slow down biological aging according to Knight Initiative director Tony Wyss-Coray and others.

Knight Initiative director Tony Wyss-Coray and others are leading the development of a test measuring organ-specific proteins in the blood as a simple and sensible way to estimate biological age.

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.

Students learned how behind every success is a story of perseverance, frustration, and failure in a fall quarter class featuring Stanford’s own Nobel laureates and MacArthur “genius” fellows, including Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje.

The science to advance our understanding of the aging process—and to potentially slow it down—has made important strides. One of the leading scientists responsible for this work is Professor Tony Wyss-Coray, whose work has focused on brain aging.

Members of Wu Tsai Neuro and the Knight Initiative were selected by the editors and writers of Stanford Communications for the most significant scientific achievements covered by Stanford Medicine in 2023.

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University is proud to announce the recipients of its fifth round of Seed Grants.

In a first-of-its-kind study, faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams and colleagues at UCSF give us an unprecedented view into how the brain analyzes the sounds in words

Wu Tsai Neuro’s newest faculty scholar, Laura Gwilliams, discusses advances in the science of how we understand one another.

A new study co-authored by Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray demonstrates a simple way of studying organ aging by analyzing distinct proteins in blood, enabling the prediction of individuals’ risk for diseases.

It turns out that your chronological age really is just a number. What’s more important for knowing disease risk is the biological age of each of your organs.

In today’s mostly plague- and famine-free world, if you can avoid more modern scourges like gun and car violence, you can expect your death to arrive not with a bang but a whimper; when one of your organs sput-sput-sputters out.

This week, we talk with scientist and author David Eagleman about why some people's senses blend together and what it teaches us about how our perceptions shape our reality.

This week, we explore the collective intelligence of ant colonies with Deborah Gordon, a professor of biology at Stanford, an expert on ant behavior, and author of a new book, The Ecology of Collective Behavior.