Featured News Image Knight Initiative news | May 12 2026 Stanford Report Gift advances research into brain resilience and aging A $90 million gift from Penny and Phil Knight will extend the work of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Image Research news | May 12 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience In pursuit of brain resilience In this research roundup, we look back on some of the ways Knight Initiative scientists have been pursuing ways to keep our minds sharp well into old age Image Researcher profiles | Apr 27 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Could neuroscience help explain miscarriage? Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage spike after age 35. Wu Tsai Neuro postdoc Blake Laham suspects neural signaling in the uterus is partly to blame Image Researcher profiles | Apr 2 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: ‘To see is to believe’ Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong says that light plays a key role in neuroscience and—and that’s why he’s working with a Big Ideas in Neuroscience team to make transparent brains Displaying 81 - 96 news posts of 348 Filter Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest News Type Wu Tsai Neuro News Knight Initiative news Director's messages Research news Researcher profiles News Features Awards and honors Podcast episodes Press coverage Publications Research Theme NeuroHealth NeuroDiscovery NeuroEngineering Image Research news | May 12 2025 Stanford Medicine Study links CAR-T cell cancer therapy to "brain fog" Cancer treatment with a cell-based immunotherapy causes mild cognitive impairment, according to research by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and colleagues. They also identified compounds that could treat it. Image Research news | Apr 2 2025 Stanford Medicine Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales by a Knight Initiative–supported team found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnos Image Press coverage | Apr 2 2025 New York Times Shingles vaccine can decrease risk of dementia, study finds Knight Initiative–supported research by Pascal Geldsetzer and colleagues adds to evidence that preventing the viral infection can help stave off cognitive de Image Research news | Apr 1 2025 Scope blog Five things to know about GLP-1s like Ozempic and addiction treatment Psychiatrist Anna Lembke shares what scientists have discovered so far about the potential for GLP-1s in addiction treatment. Image Researcher profiles | Mar 20 2025 Stanford Report Why is social connection so hard for Gen Z? Young adults crave closeness, says Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki, but often misjudge how much their peers want that, too. Image News Features | Mar 6 2025 Stanford Medicine - Scope Scientists explore role of gut-brain axis in Parkinson’s, anxiety, and long COVI... Our brains and digestive tracts are in constant communication. Image Podcast episodes | Mar 6 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Does good sleep insulate the brain against Alzheimer's? This week on the podcast, Stanford psychiatry professor Erin Gibson joins us again to share the latest findings on sleep, myelin, and neurodegenerative disease. Image Research news | Mar 5 2025 Stanford Report Researchers design new compound with promise to treat chronic pain Stanford researchers have created a compound that relieves multiple types of pain in mice without building tolerance or causing psychoactive side effects. Image Researcher profiles | Feb 24 2025 Stanford Medicine The research behind adaptive deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease Stanford Medicine spoke with neurologist Helen Bronte-Stewart, who conducted research that led to the development of a technology recently approved by the U. Image Researcher profiles | Feb 12 2025 Stanford Graduate School of Education Stanford team builds tool to keep young readers from falling through the cracks Associate professor Jason Yeatman discusses the adoption of the Stanford-developed Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) as a state-approved dyslexia scr Image News Features | Jan 23 2025 Stanford Medicine Magazine Practice doesn't always make perfect: Seizures worsen by co-opting one of the br... Juliet Knowles's research has recently shown that the brain can use adaptive myelination to perfect “skills” that are actually pathological, such as having s 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 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 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 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. 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Image Knight Initiative news | May 12 2026 Stanford Report Gift advances research into brain resilience and aging A $90 million gift from Penny and Phil Knight will extend the work of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Image Research news | May 12 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience In pursuit of brain resilience In this research roundup, we look back on some of the ways Knight Initiative scientists have been pursuing ways to keep our minds sharp well into old age
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 27 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Could neuroscience help explain miscarriage? Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage spike after age 35. Wu Tsai Neuro postdoc Blake Laham suspects neural signaling in the uterus is partly to blame
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 2 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: ‘To see is to believe’ Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong says that light plays a key role in neuroscience and—and that’s why he’s working with a Big Ideas in Neuroscience team to make transparent brains
Image Research news | May 12 2025 Stanford Medicine Study links CAR-T cell cancer therapy to "brain fog" Cancer treatment with a cell-based immunotherapy causes mild cognitive impairment, according to research by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and colleagues. They also identified compounds that could treat it.
Image Research news | Apr 2 2025 Stanford Medicine Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales by a Knight Initiative–supported team found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnos
Image Press coverage | Apr 2 2025 New York Times Shingles vaccine can decrease risk of dementia, study finds Knight Initiative–supported research by Pascal Geldsetzer and colleagues adds to evidence that preventing the viral infection can help stave off cognitive de
Image Research news | Apr 1 2025 Scope blog Five things to know about GLP-1s like Ozempic and addiction treatment Psychiatrist Anna Lembke shares what scientists have discovered so far about the potential for GLP-1s in addiction treatment.
Image Researcher profiles | Mar 20 2025 Stanford Report Why is social connection so hard for Gen Z? Young adults crave closeness, says Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki, but often misjudge how much their peers want that, too.
Image News Features | Mar 6 2025 Stanford Medicine - Scope Scientists explore role of gut-brain axis in Parkinson’s, anxiety, and long COVI... Our brains and digestive tracts are in constant communication.
Image Podcast episodes | Mar 6 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Does good sleep insulate the brain against Alzheimer's? This week on the podcast, Stanford psychiatry professor Erin Gibson joins us again to share the latest findings on sleep, myelin, and neurodegenerative disease.
Image Research news | Mar 5 2025 Stanford Report Researchers design new compound with promise to treat chronic pain Stanford researchers have created a compound that relieves multiple types of pain in mice without building tolerance or causing psychoactive side effects.
Image Researcher profiles | Feb 24 2025 Stanford Medicine The research behind adaptive deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease Stanford Medicine spoke with neurologist Helen Bronte-Stewart, who conducted research that led to the development of a technology recently approved by the U.
Image Researcher profiles | Feb 12 2025 Stanford Graduate School of Education Stanford team builds tool to keep young readers from falling through the cracks Associate professor Jason Yeatman discusses the adoption of the Stanford-developed Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) as a state-approved dyslexia scr
Image News Features | Jan 23 2025 Stanford Medicine Magazine Practice doesn't always make perfect: Seizures worsen by co-opting one of the br... Juliet Knowles's research has recently shown that the brain can use adaptive myelination to perfect “skills” that are actually pathological, such as having s
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 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 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 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.
