Neuroscience News

Through an unexpected collaboration, Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary postdoc Renzhi Yang discovered that the brain circuits controlling mouse sexual behavior are far more dynamic than researchers had realized.

The interim chief of pediatric neurology at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health discussed progress in preventing seizures among patients with epilepsy, the potential for gene-targeted therapies, and the importance of localizing where seizures are coming f

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is pleased to welcome our newest graduate student fellows in the neurosciences — including trainees entering the NeuroTech Training Program and Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology (MBCT) Student Membership Program.

Stanford undergraduates and local community college students presented their summer research projects in Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute labs at a poster session last month.

In searching for how a gene mutation associated with the cell’s recycling center leads to a rare disease, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience and Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Monther Abu-Remaileh and team identified a missing link in neurodegenerative condi

Brain-computer interface technology assisted with language learning AI allows paralyzed individuals to speak by reading brain activity and decoding it into speech according to new research co-authored by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Erin Kunz.

Pathologist Siddhartha Jaiswal discovers a surprising twist to our biology: age-related mutations that increase the risk of blood disease also protect against brain disease.

Using brain implants, machine learning and a predictive model, researchers at Stanford Medicine and Wu Tsai Neuro decoded a woman’s attempts to speak at a rate that begins to approach natural conversation.

Our brains remember how to formulate words even if the muscles responsible for saying them out loud are incapacitated. A brain-computer hookup is making the dream of restoring speech a reality in a Stanford Medicine study, which includes Wu Tsai Neuro aff

Funded in part by the Knight Initiative, researchers at the Wyss-Coray Lab have discovered that age-related cognitive decline is most pronounced in the brain’s white matter in a new study.

A study in mice suggests that the most pronounced changes that occur over time are in the white matter—neurons that are integral to transmitting signals across the brain. The research also examined how two anti-aging treatments—caloric restriction and inf

A study in mice finds that white matter — the tissue that transmits messages around the brain — shows the greatest changes as the animals age.

Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary scholar Renzhi Yang and colleagues in the lab of institute affiliate Nirao Shah have found that a particular neuronal circuit in male mice is responsible for sexual arousal and for the actions and pleasure that ensue.

Stanford University scientists have identified a brain circuit that controls sex drive in male mice, a finding researchers say could one day lead to a better understanding of human sexuality. If replicated in people, the findings could significantly boost

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Bo Wang’s team expanded mouse brain tissue to improve the resolution of spatial transcriptomics techniques. Their method — called Ex-ST — greatly improves the ability to map brain circuits by cell type.

The new tool, pioneered by Anqi Zhang, now a Stanford postdoc with Karl Deisseroth and Zhenan Bao, could make it possible to study and treat the brain without causing tissue damage.