Neuroscience News

Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams is unlocking how the brain turns sound into meaning.
 

In which Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Dan Yamins explores how foundation models of the human brain could revolutionize neuroscience.

Institute director Kang Shen and affiliate Michelle Monje are among seven Stanford researchers joining the scholarly society, which works to promote science for public good.

Molecular biologist Luis de Lecea is mapping the brain circuits that control sleep so we can manipulate them for a better night’s rest.

Favour Nerrise, NeuroTech trainee and NeURO-CC mentor, won Stanford’s inaugural Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition grand prize and People’s Choice award! Her presentation was on artificial intelligence and early brain disease detection.

In which Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams explores how AI chatbots can model the human brain's language abilities.

Favour Nerrise, NeuroTech trainee and NeURO-CC mentor, is competing in Stanford’s inaugural 3-Minute Thesis competition on April 17 presenting research that uses at–home tech and artificial intelligence to spot brain disease.

In a new study, researchers created an AI model of the mouse visual cortex that predicts neuronal responses to visual images.

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Lauren O’Connell explores the fundamental questions that underlie human relationships

Researchers with the Wu Tsai Neuro–funded Stanford Brain Organogenesis project have rebuilt, in laboratory glassware, the neural pathway that sends information from the body’s periphery to the brain.

This week on the podcast, Stanford cell biologist Brad Zuchero takes us on a tour of the frontiers of glia-science

A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales by a Knight Initiative–supported team found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnos

Knight Initiative–supported research by Pascal Geldsetzer and colleagues adds to evidence that preventing the viral infection can help stave off cognitive de

New Alzheimer's biomarkers focus on whether Alzheimer's has actually begun to affect a person's thinking and memory, rather than just amyloid levels.

Psychiatrist Anna Lembke shares what scientists have discovered so far about the potential for GLP-1s in addiction treatment.

Young adults crave closeness, says Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki, but often misjudge how much their peers want that, too.