Neuroscience News

The genetic variant APOE4, carried by one-fifth of the world’s people, substantially boosts Alzheimer’s risk. But scientists have been puzzled about how to reverse that risk: punch up the gene variant’s potency, or smack it down? Now we know, thanks to research funded by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience.

Researchers from around the university will collaborate to deepen our understanding of the brain.

Untangling the complex connections between the gut, brain and microbiome to heal chronic GI conditions

What could make a promising approach to psychiatry and brain research even better? A solid beat.

In which we discuss the neuroscience and lived experience of psychosis and schizophrenia with Stanford psychiatrist Jacob Ballon and peer advocate Shannon Pagdon.

The new work, in mice missing the autism-linked gene CNTNAP2, suggests a mechanism to help explain the overlap between epilepsy and autism.

A new study finds links between two popular models of the disease—and the results could change how researchers think about treatment.

Small cell lung cancer often metastasizes to the brain. A Stanford Medicine-led study shows the cancer cells form synapses with neurons, and signaling across these synapses encourages tumor growth.

In this episode, we talk with neuroscientist, musician and author Daniel Levitin about his new book on the neuroscience of music and how it is being used to help heal disorders from Parkinson's to chronic pain

Stanford undergrads and local community college students paired with Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute researchers to find new ways to head off strokes, predict Alzheimer's disease, and more.

Exploring the electrical connections between cancer and brain cells, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje is bringing hope to children with brain tumors.

Stanford researchers reviewed over 400 therapy evaluations and discovered a crucial mismatch: Mouse studies test disease prevention, while human trials test treatment of existing disease.

In a new study in rats, scientists used ultrasound-activated nanoparticles to deliver ketamine and anesthetics to precise targets in the brain.

Stanford Medicine researchers explain how sleep influences our moods and the ‘bidirectional’ nature of that relationship — plus how we can repair broken slum

In which neuroscientist Dan Abrams shares the quest to understand how our brains are tuned for voices, and why this instinct fails to develop in children with autism.

The technique, which used genetically healthy donor cells, prolonged life and function in mice with a disease similar to Tay-Sachs.