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Image News Features | Jul 10 2025 Stanford H&S Foundational research on brain development may help prevent degeneration Stanford neurobiologist Carla Shatz, famous for discovering how neural connections develop early in life, is using that knowledge to work on the problem of how they can later deteriorate from Alzheimer’s disease.
Image Research news | Jul 9 2025 Stanford Medicine People with ‘young brains’ outlive ‘old-brained’ peers A blood-test analysis developed at Stanford Medicine can determine the “biological ages” of 11 separate organ systems in individuals’ bodies and predict the health consequences.
Image Researcher profiles | Jun 23 2025 Stanford Report ‘You can literally lose who you are’ Scientists in the lab of chemical engineer Monther Abu-Remaileh are uncovering the cellular functions that go awry in degenerative brain disorders and identifying therapies that could treat them.
Image News Features | Jun 17 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Myelin matters A decade ago, three generations of Stanford scientists banded together to publish a landmark study on one of the brain’s most prevalent structures. Today, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute researchers are discovering that myelin is key to just about every aspect of neurological health.
Image Research news | Jan 20 2025 Stanford Medicine Brain-cell "periodic table" for psychiatric disorders reveals new schizophrenia ... Stanford Medicine research demonstrates a new way of detecting cells implicated in the malfunctions that cause psychiatric diseases.
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 | Jan 13 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stanford researchers launch free VR app preparing kids for MRI scans Stanford University researchers have released a groundbreaking virtual reality (VR) application designed to help children prepare f
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 Research news | Dec 18 2024 Stanford Engineering New knit haptic sleeve simulates realistic touch Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed a lightweight, comfortable knit sleeve that uses pressure-based haptics to simulate touch, opening up new
Image News Features | Dec 16 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The co-evolution of neuroscience and AI Academic leaders debated the future of the intersecting study of natural and artificial intelligence at Wu Tsai Neuro’s Annual Symposium
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Dec 13 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute 2024 neuroscience research in review Join us as we look back on some of the key studies we covered here at Wu Tsai Neuro in 2024 to give a (very partial) overview of the impact of our community’s research efforts this past year
Image Research news | Dec 5 2024 Stanford Report Tool that enhances control of cellular activity could expand biological and medi... Alice Ting and colleagues have built a new synthetic receptor with broad potential to program cell activity, including immune response and neurological
Image Podcast episodes | Dec 5 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How to live in a world without free will This week on the podcast, Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky lays out his view that we should stop judging one another (and ourselves) for behaviors we can't control
Image Research news | Nov 25 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Dopamine and serotonin work in opposition to shape learning New research from the Malenka lab reveals that reward-based learning requires the two neuromodulators to balance one another's influence.
Image Press coverage | Nov 25 2024 Washington Post Inside your body, aging unfolds at remarkably different rates New research shows aging is not a uniform process. Parts of our bodies start aging earlier than others, right down to our organs and cells.
Image Podcast episodes | Nov 21 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The power of psychedelics meets the power of placebo We're diving back into the world of psychedelic medicine with anesthesiologists Boris Heifets and Theresa Lii, who share intriguing new data that sheds light on how ketamine and placebo effects may interact in treating depression.
Image Researcher profiles | Nov 18 2024 HAI From brain to machine: The unexpected journey of neural networks How early cognitive research funded by the NSF paved the way for today’s AI breakthroughs—and how AI is now inspiring new understandings of the human mind.
Image Research news | Nov 12 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Unlocking the secrets of ketosis With Knight Initiative support, Stanford researchers uncover a biochemical “off-ramp” in ketosis, rewriting our understanding of how ketosis influences metabolism.
Image Podcast episodes | Nov 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Seeing sounds, tasting colors (re-release) Today, we are going back into the archives for a conversation with neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and best-selling author David Eagleman about the science of synesthesia. If you don't know what that is, you're about to find out.
Image Research news | Oct 29 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute New voltage indicator enables ultra-sensitive synaptic imaging Bioengineers and neuroscientists at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University have developed a highly sensitive tool for detecting brain cells’ subtlest electrical signals.
