Neuroscience News

Everything we know now, and what we hope and pray is coming

Wu Tsai Neuro researchers reprogrammed fruit fly brain development and behavior using new discoveries about how attractive and repulsive molecules build neural circuits

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia are devastating neurodegenerative diseases. Knight Initiative postdoc Yi Zeng is working to understand the role a central protein plays in both diseases—and whether it might point toward new diagnostics and treatments

Neuroscience experts convened in Asilomar to talk through guidelines around ethical research on human neural organoids

Join us as we talk with Erin Kunz about building brain-computer interfaces to restore speech to people with paralysis, and recent research testing whether this technology could accidentally read out private thoughts

Neuroradiologist Raag Airan and his lab have found a non-invasive, drug-free method to help clean the brain, reduce inflammation, and treat disease—and with Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience support, they plan to test it in people soon.

The Neurosciences Theory Center member has been awarded a senior fellowship through the Schmidt Sciences Foundation's AI2050 program.

Lab-grown “reductionist replicas” of the human brain are helping scientists understand fetal development and cognitive disorders, including autism. But ethical questions loom.

Scientists and ethicists including Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Sergiu Pașca and Hank Greely argued for an international process to address the ethical and social questions raised by organoids.

The Knight Initiative’s Fall Symposium featured researchers building new molecular atlases of the brain alongside new updates on neurodegenerative disease and what might be done about it.

By studying why some kids struggle to read, cognitive neuroscientist Jason Yeatman hopes to make education work better for all students and deepen science’s understanding of the brain.

Stanford doctoral students spanning neuroscience, chemical engineering, and electrical engineering are developing innovative approaches to understanding the brain and links between it and the body.

Join us as we talk with Brian Knutson, a professor of psychology in Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences about the frontiers of neuroeconomics, bridging psychology, economics, and neuroscience

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Thomas Montine and Alice Ting are among those joining the distinguished society of physicians.

Research from Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray's lab show that an Alzheimer's hallmark—myriad oily droplets in brain cells called microglia—may help connect several of the disorder’s better known but not well understood features.

In a clinical trial of a wireless retinal prosthesis, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Daniel Palanker and colleagues found that people with advanced macular degeneration regained enough vision to read books and subway signs.