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 ThemeNeuroDiscovery NeuroHealth NeuroEngineering News TypeResearch news Featured News Press coverage Knight Initiative news Awards and honors Institute News Researcher profiles Podcast episodes Director's messages Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Knight Initiative news | Mar 18 2024 Stanford Medicine Weight loss caused by common diabetes drug tied to “anti-hunger” molecule in stu... Research supported by the Knight Initiative found that metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes drug associated with moderate weight loss, stimulates the production of lac-phe, a molecule abundant after exercise. Image Featured News | Mar 14 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The neural switch that keeps us grounded as we daydream Dentate spikes in the rodent hippocampus support learning by linking introspective thoughts and memories with current circumstances, according to new research supported by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. Image Featured News | Feb 22 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Knight-funded research uncovers gene mutations that may prevent Alzheimer’s Dise... Disabling the notorious APOE4 gene might protect against the disease, according to research from Michael Greicius and team. Image Podcast episodes | Feb 22 2024 From Our Neurons to Yours Space and memory This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we sit down with Stanford neurobiologist Lisa Giocomo to explore the intersection of memory and navigation. Image Awards and honors | Feb 11 2024 International Society for Stem Cell Research Sergiu P. Paşca Receives the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his Pioneering Work i... The International Society for Stem Cell Research awards Sergiu P. Paşca the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his achievements in neurodevelopment and disease. Image Podcast episodes | Feb 8 2024 From Our Neurons to Yours Why we do what we do This week we talk with psychiatrist Neir Eshel about dopamine, the difference between 'liking' and 'wanting' and new ways of thinking about Parkinson's disease and addiction. Image Featured News | Jan 30 2024 Stanford Report Ten years of Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Leaders of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute reflect on a decade of boundary-breaking study of the brain and what lies ahead for Stanford’s widespread neurosciences community. Image Research news | Jan 26 2024 Ted Radio Hour How lab-grown brain cells can now help us understand brain disorders Neuroscientists have long been frustrated that they cannot access or examine brain tissue. But by reserve-engineering cells in the lab, Sergiu Pașca can now study brain disorders on a molecular level. Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 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 Knight Initiative news | Mar 18 2024 Stanford Medicine Weight loss caused by common diabetes drug tied to “anti-hunger” molecule in stu... Research supported by the Knight Initiative found that metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes drug associated with moderate weight loss, stimulates the production of lac-phe, a molecule abundant after exercise.
Image Featured News | Mar 14 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The neural switch that keeps us grounded as we daydream Dentate spikes in the rodent hippocampus support learning by linking introspective thoughts and memories with current circumstances, according to new research supported by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.
Image Featured News | Feb 22 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Knight-funded research uncovers gene mutations that may prevent Alzheimer’s Dise... Disabling the notorious APOE4 gene might protect against the disease, according to research from Michael Greicius and team.
Image Podcast episodes | Feb 22 2024 From Our Neurons to Yours Space and memory This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we sit down with Stanford neurobiologist Lisa Giocomo to explore the intersection of memory and navigation.
Image Awards and honors | Feb 11 2024 International Society for Stem Cell Research Sergiu P. Paşca Receives the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his Pioneering Work i... The International Society for Stem Cell Research awards Sergiu P. Paşca the 2024 ISSCR Momentum Award for his achievements in neurodevelopment and disease.
Image Podcast episodes | Feb 8 2024 From Our Neurons to Yours Why we do what we do This week we talk with psychiatrist Neir Eshel about dopamine, the difference between 'liking' and 'wanting' and new ways of thinking about Parkinson's disease and addiction.
Image Featured News | Jan 30 2024 Stanford Report Ten years of Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Leaders of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute reflect on a decade of boundary-breaking study of the brain and what lies ahead for Stanford’s widespread neurosciences community.
Image Research news | Jan 26 2024 Ted Radio Hour How lab-grown brain cells can now help us understand brain disorders Neuroscientists have long been frustrated that they cannot access or examine brain tissue. But by reserve-engineering cells in the lab, Sergiu Pașca can now study brain disorders on a molecular level.