Featured News Image Featured News | Jul 1 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Molecular toolmakers share glimpses of the future of brain science At the 2024 Neuro-omics Symposium, early-stage research funded by Wu Tsai Neuro's Big Ideas in Neuroscience program revealed exciting progress at the intersection of genomics and AI Image Featured News | Jun 27 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The Worm Has Turned: DIY Lab Platform Evaluates New Molecules in Minutes New software developed by the NeuroPlant Big Ideas in Neuroscience initiative turns an ordinary flatbed scanner and collection of nematode worms into a DIY platform to sniff out beneficial and harmful plant-based molecules Image Featured News | Jun 20 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How a new kind of brain plasticity could help make sense of addiction This week, we talk with Michelle Monje and Rob Malenka about recent findings on the role of myelin plasticity in opioid addiction 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. News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroHealth NeuroDiscovery NeuroEngineering News TypeResearch news Press coverage Featured News Knight Initiative news Institute News Podcast episodes Awards and honors Researcher profiles Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Research news | Nov 29 2021 Scope Blog How to solve the brain’s trickiest mysteries? Collaborate. At its core, the Wu Tsai Neurosciences institute strives to harness the full collective intellectual power of Stanford to solve some of the most challenging questions in science: the nature of the three pounds of tissue that produces our experiences, memo Image Awards and honors | Oct 20 2021 Stanford Medicine Michelle Monje elected to National Academy of Medicine Wu Tsai Neuro faculty affiliate Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, was one of four Stanford Medicine faculty members elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in 2021. Image Research news | Oct 18 2021 Scope Blog From angel to demon: Why some brain cells go ‘bad’ Former trainees of late Stanford neuroscientist Ben Barres have cracked a puzzle Barres had long pursued, identifying key neurotoxic factors secreted by astrocytes. Barres shares senior authorship on their new paper, published in Nature. Image Featured News | Oct 15 2021 Stanford Medicine magazine New Stanford Medicine magazine focuses on the brain and brain health The Fall 2021 issue of Stanford Medicine magazine explores new discoveries about the brain and nervous system and how these findings are leading to remarkable advances in neurological care. Image Research news | Oct 8 2021 Scope Blog Can major surgery increase risk for Alzheimer’s disease? A small study by Stanford Medicine researchers puts a fine point on the concern that major surgery, which is highly invasive, may accelerate cognitive decline in some patients. Nobody would argue that undergoing a major surgical procedure is a walk in the Image Press coverage | Oct 8 2021 The New York Times The Devastating Ways Depression and Anxiety Impact the Body Dr. David Spiegel and colleagues showed decades ago that women whose depression was easing lived longer than those whose depression was getting worse. His research and other studies have clearly shown that “the brain is intimately connected to the body an Image Press coverage | Sep 30 2021 Scientific American Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat Physical Pain? LSD and psilocybin increasingly show promise as mental health treatments. Now universities and companies are exploring their use in pain management Image Awards and honors | Sep 28 2021 Stanford Medicine Neuroscientist Michelle Monje awarded MacArthur 'genius grant' The neuroscientist and pediatric neuro-oncologist is being recognized for her work to understand healthy brain development and create therapies for a group of lethal brain tumors. Pagination Previous page Page 16 Page 17 Current page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Next page
Image Featured News | Jul 1 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Molecular toolmakers share glimpses of the future of brain science At the 2024 Neuro-omics Symposium, early-stage research funded by Wu Tsai Neuro's Big Ideas in Neuroscience program revealed exciting progress at the intersection of genomics and AI
Image Featured News | Jun 27 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The Worm Has Turned: DIY Lab Platform Evaluates New Molecules in Minutes New software developed by the NeuroPlant Big Ideas in Neuroscience initiative turns an ordinary flatbed scanner and collection of nematode worms into a DIY platform to sniff out beneficial and harmful plant-based molecules
Image Featured News | Jun 20 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How a new kind of brain plasticity could help make sense of addiction This week, we talk with Michelle Monje and Rob Malenka about recent findings on the role of myelin plasticity in opioid addiction
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 Research news | Nov 29 2021 Scope Blog How to solve the brain’s trickiest mysteries? Collaborate. At its core, the Wu Tsai Neurosciences institute strives to harness the full collective intellectual power of Stanford to solve some of the most challenging questions in science: the nature of the three pounds of tissue that produces our experiences, memo
Image Awards and honors | Oct 20 2021 Stanford Medicine Michelle Monje elected to National Academy of Medicine Wu Tsai Neuro faculty affiliate Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, was one of four Stanford Medicine faculty members elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in 2021.
Image Research news | Oct 18 2021 Scope Blog From angel to demon: Why some brain cells go ‘bad’ Former trainees of late Stanford neuroscientist Ben Barres have cracked a puzzle Barres had long pursued, identifying key neurotoxic factors secreted by astrocytes. Barres shares senior authorship on their new paper, published in Nature.
Image Featured News | Oct 15 2021 Stanford Medicine magazine New Stanford Medicine magazine focuses on the brain and brain health The Fall 2021 issue of Stanford Medicine magazine explores new discoveries about the brain and nervous system and how these findings are leading to remarkable advances in neurological care.
Image Research news | Oct 8 2021 Scope Blog Can major surgery increase risk for Alzheimer’s disease? A small study by Stanford Medicine researchers puts a fine point on the concern that major surgery, which is highly invasive, may accelerate cognitive decline in some patients. Nobody would argue that undergoing a major surgical procedure is a walk in the
Image Press coverage | Oct 8 2021 The New York Times The Devastating Ways Depression and Anxiety Impact the Body Dr. David Spiegel and colleagues showed decades ago that women whose depression was easing lived longer than those whose depression was getting worse. His research and other studies have clearly shown that “the brain is intimately connected to the body an
Image Press coverage | Sep 30 2021 Scientific American Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat Physical Pain? LSD and psilocybin increasingly show promise as mental health treatments. Now universities and companies are exploring their use in pain management
Image Awards and honors | Sep 28 2021 Stanford Medicine Neuroscientist Michelle Monje awarded MacArthur 'genius grant' The neuroscientist and pediatric neuro-oncologist is being recognized for her work to understand healthy brain development and create therapies for a group of lethal brain tumors.