Featured News Image Featured News | Jun 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Koret Human Neurosciences Community Lab Announces Inaugural Pilot Grant Awards To advance neuroscience research using EEG and TMS technologies, the Koret Human Neurosciences Community Lab has awarded its inaugural Human Neuroscience Pilot Grants to ten innovative research projects. Image Featured News | May 28 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscientists use AI to simulate how the brain makes sense of the visual world A research team at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has made a major stride in using AI to replicate how the brain organizes sensory information to make sense of the world, opening up new frontiers for virtual neuroscience. Image Featured News | May 25 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute NeuroChoice: Eight years of forging connections to illuminate and empower choice Wu Tsai Neuro's multidisciplinary "Big Ideas in Neuroscience" initiative connected addiction-focused basic research, clinical application, and public policy to create a community across traditional disciplinary boundaries, deepening understanding of decision-making. Image Featured News | May 23 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience and AI: What artificial intelligence teaches us about the brain (an... This week, we talk with Surya Ganguli about the neuroscience of AI, and how advances artificial intelligence could teach us about our own brains. News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroDiscovery NeuroHealth NeuroEngineering News TypeResearch news Press coverage Awards and honors Featured News Institute News Knight Initiative news Researcher profiles Podcast episodes Publications Director's messages Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Research news | Dec 1 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Paying attention is a matter of making the brain a little more awake It turns out that tiny little bits of our brains are constantly cycling in and out of sleep, and when those few cells are down, they miss things. What’s more, when neurons are specifically paying attention, they spend less time in the sleepy part of the c Image Research news | Dec 1 2016 Stanford News Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time, Stanford resear... New research finds that small regions of the brain cycle in and out of sleep, even when awake. The cycles shift toward “awake” when that part of the brain pays attention to a task. Press coverage | Nov 29 2016 KQED Radio Forum Addiction is an Illness, Not ‘a Moral Failing,’ Says Surgeon General The U.S. surgeon general released a landmark report this month calling for “a cultural shift in how we think about addiction.” The report also states that addiction is a chronic illness, not a moral failing. Research news | Nov 16 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope More of a single chemical in a single brain region means better mental juggling Like a computer’s RAM, working memory serves as a buffer where information, derived from the senses or retrieved from long-term memory, can be temporarily placed so the conscious brain can process it. Image Research news | Nov 15 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center More GABA in one brain region linked to better working memory The amount of a neurotransmitter called GABA in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex predicted individuals’ ability to keep several things in mind simultaneously, researchers found. Press coverage | Nov 8 2016 Society for Neuroscience Robert Malenka Receives Julius Axelrod Prize The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Julius Axelrod Prize to Robert Malenka, MD, PhD, of Stanford University School of Medicine. The Julius Axelrod Prize recognizes exceptional achievements in neuropharmacology or a related field and exemplar Press coverage | Nov 8 2016 Society for Neuroscience Ben Barres and Thomas Jessell Receive the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present its highest award, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, to Ben Barres, PhD, of Stanford University, and Thomas Jessell, PhD, of Columbia University. Research news | Nov 4 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Stanford scientists discuss the “hard problem” of consciousness with playwright ... Tom Stoppard’s latest play, which tackles issues of neuroscience and consciousness – leading to its title, “The Hard Problem” – was followed by a panel discussion with scientists from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. Pagination Previous page Page 121 Page 122 Current page 123 Page 124 Page 125 Next page
Image Featured News | Jun 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Koret Human Neurosciences Community Lab Announces Inaugural Pilot Grant Awards To advance neuroscience research using EEG and TMS technologies, the Koret Human Neurosciences Community Lab has awarded its inaugural Human Neuroscience Pilot Grants to ten innovative research projects.
Image Featured News | May 28 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscientists use AI to simulate how the brain makes sense of the visual world A research team at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has made a major stride in using AI to replicate how the brain organizes sensory information to make sense of the world, opening up new frontiers for virtual neuroscience.
Image Featured News | May 25 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute NeuroChoice: Eight years of forging connections to illuminate and empower choice Wu Tsai Neuro's multidisciplinary "Big Ideas in Neuroscience" initiative connected addiction-focused basic research, clinical application, and public policy to create a community across traditional disciplinary boundaries, deepening understanding of decision-making.
Image Featured News | May 23 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience and AI: What artificial intelligence teaches us about the brain (an... This week, we talk with Surya Ganguli about the neuroscience of AI, and how advances artificial intelligence could teach us about our own brains.
Research news | Dec 1 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Paying attention is a matter of making the brain a little more awake It turns out that tiny little bits of our brains are constantly cycling in and out of sleep, and when those few cells are down, they miss things. What’s more, when neurons are specifically paying attention, they spend less time in the sleepy part of the c
Image Research news | Dec 1 2016 Stanford News Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time, Stanford resear... New research finds that small regions of the brain cycle in and out of sleep, even when awake. The cycles shift toward “awake” when that part of the brain pays attention to a task.
Press coverage | Nov 29 2016 KQED Radio Forum Addiction is an Illness, Not ‘a Moral Failing,’ Says Surgeon General The U.S. surgeon general released a landmark report this month calling for “a cultural shift in how we think about addiction.” The report also states that addiction is a chronic illness, not a moral failing.
Research news | Nov 16 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope More of a single chemical in a single brain region means better mental juggling Like a computer’s RAM, working memory serves as a buffer where information, derived from the senses or retrieved from long-term memory, can be temporarily placed so the conscious brain can process it.
Image Research news | Nov 15 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center More GABA in one brain region linked to better working memory The amount of a neurotransmitter called GABA in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex predicted individuals’ ability to keep several things in mind simultaneously, researchers found.
Press coverage | Nov 8 2016 Society for Neuroscience Robert Malenka Receives Julius Axelrod Prize The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Julius Axelrod Prize to Robert Malenka, MD, PhD, of Stanford University School of Medicine. The Julius Axelrod Prize recognizes exceptional achievements in neuropharmacology or a related field and exemplar
Press coverage | Nov 8 2016 Society for Neuroscience Ben Barres and Thomas Jessell Receive the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present its highest award, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, to Ben Barres, PhD, of Stanford University, and Thomas Jessell, PhD, of Columbia University.
Research news | Nov 4 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Stanford scientists discuss the “hard problem” of consciousness with playwright ... Tom Stoppard’s latest play, which tackles issues of neuroscience and consciousness – leading to its title, “The Hard Problem” – was followed by a panel discussion with scientists from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley.