Neuroscience News

Our brains and digestive tracts are in constant communication.

This week on the podcast, Stanford psychiatry professor Erin Gibson joins us again to share the latest findings on sleep, myelin, and neurodegenerative disease.

Stanford researchers have created a compound that relieves multiple types of pain in mice without building tolerance or causing psychoactive side effects.

Gordon Wang, director of the Neuroscience Microscopy Service Community Lab at Wu Tsai Neuro, and his team are studying integrated stress response inhibitor (ISRIB) as a potential treatment for Fragile X syndrome, aiming to restore brain function and improve social behavior.

New findings about the sugary armor on the brain’s frontline cells could shed light on cognitive decline and diseases like Alzheimer’s—and open new avenues f

Stanford Medicine spoke with neurologist Helen Bronte-Stewart, who conducted research that led to the development of a technology recently approved by the U.

The 1970s papers from Goldberg and Wurtz made ambitious mechanistic studies of higher brain functions seem feasible.

How does the brain wire itself for learning? What molecular mechanisms protect neural circuits during aging? These are just some of the research projects by the 2025 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars.

Associate professor Jason Yeatman discusses the adoption of the Stanford-developed Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) as a state-approved dyslexia scr

Mice learn fastest and most reliably when they experience an increase in dopamine paired with an inhibition of serotonin in their nucleus accumbens, a new st

Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Guosong Hong explains how he and colleagues have used a dye commonly found in nacho chips to make living tissue transparent.

Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Guosong Hong has been awarded a 2025 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science

Research supported by a Knight Initiative Catalyst Grant explores whether targeting pathways related to the brain’s “chill-out” system could restore youthful resilience and improve cognitive function.

A new generation of researchers at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is developing tools to modify brain activity for research and clinical applications—without drilling through the skull.

Juliet Knowles's research has recently shown that the brain can use adaptive myelination to perfect “skills” that are actually pathological, such as having s