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 | Aug 22 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Alzheimer’s puzzle pieces are coming together The early stages of Alzheimer disease is marked by the wholesale destruction of synapses — junctions where neurons relay impulses from one cell to the next. As the condition progresses, whole nerve cells and even entire nerve circuits in the brain start t Image Research news | Aug 17 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center 5 Questions: Robert Malenka on Ecstasy research In a Q&A, the neuroscientist discusses the reasons for continued basic and clinical research on an illegal drug scientists call 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA, and partiers call Ecstasy. Research news | Aug 17 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope One patient can still spot faces post-surgery, suggesting perception network is ... In what might be reassuring news to many of us, psychologist Kalanit Grill-Spector, PhD, and research associate Kevin Weiner, PhD, have found evidence of our brain’s resilience. Image Research news | Aug 17 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center Compound kills pain as well as morphine but may lack overdose risk Morphine and similar drugs are the world’s most widely used painkillers. But they’re also dangerous and addictive. A new compound may be able to safely provide the same analgesia as morphine. Awards and honors | Aug 15 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Karl Deisseroth: optogenetics pioneer, Massry Prize winner and, by the way, grea... Stanford bioengineer, neuroscientist and practicing psychiatrist Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, heads a huge, prolific laboratory but also oversees a program he set up years ago to train researchers from all over the world in the use of optogenetics. Image Awards and honors | Aug 15 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center Karl Deisseroth wins 2016 Massry Prize for pioneering optogenetics work The psychiatrist and bioengineer is being honored for his groundbreaking work in creating a viable technique for installing light-driven “on” and “off” switches on the surfaces of nerve cells, enabling investigators to learn exactly what they do. Research news | Aug 11 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Tiny drug-bearing balls of gold may be just the right size to quench dementia Stanford molecular bioengineer Alex Savtchenko, PhD, has devised a newfangled nanoparticle whose center is a small ball of gold. It may turn out to be an effective and safer drug for Alzheimer’s version of the disease. Press coverage | Aug 4 2016 Scientific American After Another Statistical Speed Bump, Is the Science of fMRI Learning from Its M... A recent study, and its response, heralds a new level of self-scrutiny for this area. Pagination Previous page Page 125 Page 126 Current page 127 Page 128 Page 129 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 | Aug 22 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Alzheimer’s puzzle pieces are coming together The early stages of Alzheimer disease is marked by the wholesale destruction of synapses — junctions where neurons relay impulses from one cell to the next. As the condition progresses, whole nerve cells and even entire nerve circuits in the brain start t
Image Research news | Aug 17 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center 5 Questions: Robert Malenka on Ecstasy research In a Q&A, the neuroscientist discusses the reasons for continued basic and clinical research on an illegal drug scientists call 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA, and partiers call Ecstasy.
Research news | Aug 17 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope One patient can still spot faces post-surgery, suggesting perception network is ... In what might be reassuring news to many of us, psychologist Kalanit Grill-Spector, PhD, and research associate Kevin Weiner, PhD, have found evidence of our brain’s resilience.
Image Research news | Aug 17 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center Compound kills pain as well as morphine but may lack overdose risk Morphine and similar drugs are the world’s most widely used painkillers. But they’re also dangerous and addictive. A new compound may be able to safely provide the same analgesia as morphine.
Awards and honors | Aug 15 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Karl Deisseroth: optogenetics pioneer, Massry Prize winner and, by the way, grea... Stanford bioengineer, neuroscientist and practicing psychiatrist Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, heads a huge, prolific laboratory but also oversees a program he set up years ago to train researchers from all over the world in the use of optogenetics.
Image Awards and honors | Aug 15 2016 Stanford Medicine - News Center Karl Deisseroth wins 2016 Massry Prize for pioneering optogenetics work The psychiatrist and bioengineer is being honored for his groundbreaking work in creating a viable technique for installing light-driven “on” and “off” switches on the surfaces of nerve cells, enabling investigators to learn exactly what they do.
Research news | Aug 11 2016 Stanford Medicine - Scope Tiny drug-bearing balls of gold may be just the right size to quench dementia Stanford molecular bioengineer Alex Savtchenko, PhD, has devised a newfangled nanoparticle whose center is a small ball of gold. It may turn out to be an effective and safer drug for Alzheimer’s version of the disease.
Press coverage | Aug 4 2016 Scientific American After Another Statistical Speed Bump, Is the Science of fMRI Learning from Its M... A recent study, and its response, heralds a new level of self-scrutiny for this area.