Featured News Image Researcher profiles | Jan 27 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: Unraveling the role of endocannabinoid metabolism in brain aging 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. Image News Features | Jan 24 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Non-invasive brain stimulation opens new ways to study and treat the brain 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. Image Director's messages | Jan 13 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Director's Message, Winter 2025 Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen welcomes the Wu Tsai Neuro community to 2025, reflects on our recent milestones, and shares some exciting developments on the horizon. 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Image Researcher profiles | Jan 27 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Q&A: Unraveling the role of endocannabinoid metabolism in brain aging 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.
Image News Features | Jan 24 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Non-invasive brain stimulation opens new ways to study and treat the brain 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.
Image Director's messages | Jan 13 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Director's Message, Winter 2025 Vincent V.C. Woo Director Kang Shen welcomes the Wu Tsai Neuro community to 2025, reflects on our recent milestones, and shares some exciting developments on the horizon.
Image Research news | Dec 19 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Blight or Benefit: How Cellular Neighbors Shape the Aging Brain Researchers at Stanford’s Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience merge spatial transcriptomics and AI to uncover how local cellular interactions drive brain aging and resilience
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Sep 13 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Synthetic neuroscience grants promote transformative brain tech Research projects funded by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute's Synthetic Neuroscience Grants will advance molecular and tissue engineering tools to more precisely study and interact with brain circuits.
Image Podcast episodes | Sep 12 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Why new Alzheimer's drugs may not work for patients This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with Stanford neurologist Mike Greicius about his critique of new amyloid-clearing Alzheimer's drugs, and his optimism for the next wave of therapies currently in development.
Image Research news | Sep 6 2024 Stanford Report Cognitive behavioral therapy for depression can lead to lasting changes in the b... New research by Institute affiliate Leanne Williams adds to the evidence that choosing treatment based on the neurological underpinnings of a patient’s depre
Image Research news | Sep 5 2024 Stanford Report Researchers make mouse skin transparent using a common food dye Researchers were able to see through a living mouse’s skin to its internal organs, supported in part by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, simply by applying common light-absorbing molecules.
Image Research news | Sep 4 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Discovery sheds light on earliest development of gut motility A collaboration between Institute Faculty Scholars Julia Kaltschmidt and Todd Coleman has identified a key step in nervous system control over gut motility, opening new opportunities for understanding GI disorders in premature infants
Image Press coverage | Sep 2 2024 NPR This metabolic brain boost revives memory in Alzheimer’s mice Study in mice, supported by the Knight Initiative, suggests that an experimental cancer drug boosted brain metabolism, restored memory, and improved Alzheimer's symptoms. This novel approach may offer a new way to treat Alzheimer's beyond targeting amyloid plaques.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Aug 29 2024 Stanford Magazine Inside Out Sergiu Pașca has figured out how to watch the human brain develop in real time. Next up: revolutionizing psychiatry.
Image Podcast episodes | Aug 29 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Depression's distinctive fingerprints in the brain This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with Leanne Williams about distinctive biotypes of depression revealed by brain imaging and AI, and the implications for therapy and mental health.
Image News Features | Aug 23 2024 Stanford Magazine Why is a common gene variant bad for your brain? The APOE4 genetic variant, carried by about 20% of people, significantly raises Alzheimer’s risk. But should we boost the gene’s potency or suppress it? A recent discovery by Knight Initiative affiliate, Mike Greicius, may provide the answers we need.
Image Press coverage | Aug 22 2024 Genetic Engineering and Biotech News (GEN) Alzheimer’s Mice Have Memory and Brain Function “Rescued” by Cancer Drug Research by Kati Andreasson and colleagues suggests that a type of drug developed for treating cancer may hold promise as a new treatment for neurodegenerati
Image Press coverage | Aug 22 2024 NPR A drug that restores brain metabolism could help treat Alzheimer's A drug that restores brain metabolism in mouse models of Alzheimer's also improved cognitive function, according to research from the Andreasson lab.
Image Research news | Aug 22 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Drugs that improve brain metabolism could help Alzheimer’s patients A team of neuroscientists at the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience have zeroed in on a critical regulator of brain metabolism that may be over-activated in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Image Research news | Aug 22 2024 Stanford Neurosurgery Neurons rely on glial cells to become electrically excitable Institute affiliates Brad Zuchero, Justin Du Bois and colleagues discovered that neurons require signaling from glia to become fully excitable, rather than by becoming excitable by default.
Image Press coverage | Aug 20 2024 Self Why Multitasking Doesn’t Work and Is Actually Making Your Life Worse It may feel like you’re being more productive, but experts like Anthony Wagner say you’re not.
Image Research news | Aug 15 2024 Stanford Medicine Massive biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s, Stanford Medicine research... Time marches on predictably, but biological aging is anything but constant, according to new research by Michael Snyder and colleagues.
Image Podcast episodes | Aug 15 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How the brain helps cancers grow This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with Michelle Monje about her discovery that many cancers depend on nervous system innervation; she also discusses opportunities for novel therapies.