Featured News Image Research news | Mar 17 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Bridging Nature and Nurture: The brain's flexible foundation from birth By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute have identified how a balance of innate structure and flexible learning produces our remarkably organized visual brains. Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Mar 10 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Brain imaging and stimulation technologies receive 2025 Neuroscience:Translate a... Three teams developing promising neurotechnologies with the potential for tremendous impact on human well-being have been named recipients of the 2025 Neuroscience:Translate awards from the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford. Image Podcast episodes | Mar 6 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Does good sleep insulate the brain against Alzheimer's? 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Image Research news | Mar 17 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Bridging Nature and Nurture: The brain's flexible foundation from birth By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute have identified how a balance of innate structure and flexible learning produces our remarkably organized visual brains.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Mar 10 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Brain imaging and stimulation technologies receive 2025 Neuroscience:Translate a... Three teams developing promising neurotechnologies with the potential for tremendous impact on human well-being have been named recipients of the 2025 Neuroscience:Translate awards from the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford.
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 Awards and honors | Feb 19 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Meet the 2025 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars How does the brain wire itself for learning? What molecular mechanisms protect neural circuits during aging? These are just some of the research projects by the 2025 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars.
Image Researcher profiles | May 10 2024 Stanford Report James Doty on the neuroscience of manifestation In his new book, James Doty turns to the latest research findings in neuroscience to explain what manifestation does to the brain and body.
Image Podcast episodes | May 9 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics Inside Out: How do LSD and psilocybin alter perception? (Part 2) This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about how psychedelics work in the brain.
Image Research news | May 8 2024 Stanford Report Augmented reality comes to regular glasses By combining advances in display technologies, holographic imaging, and artificial intelligence, Stanford engineers have found a way to display full-color, 3D moving images over a direct view of the real world.
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | May 7 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Exploring MRI's role in neuroscience research on model organisms Recognizing the potential for wider application in small-animal neuroscience research, the Neurosciences Preclinical Imaging Lab (NPIL) at Wu Tsai Neuro hosted its 3rd annual symposium and named the recipients of its Pilot Grants.
Image Podcast episodes | May 2 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about studies that could change our understanding of the renaissance in psychedelic medicine.
Image Research news | Apr 29 2024 Stanford Magazine Neuropsychiatry and sandwiches Learn how a silo-busting program to probe neuropsychiatric disease was hatched over lunch with Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Paul Nuyujukian, Karl Deisseroth, Carolyn Rodriguez, and Vivek Buch.
Image Podcast episodes | Apr 25 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Why our brains are bad at climate change This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we're talking about the neuroscience of climate change with neuroeconomist Nik Sawe.
Image Research news | Apr 24 2024 Stanford Medicine Brain organoids and assembloids are new models for elucidating, treating neurode... New research led by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Sergiu Pasca on Timothy syndrome may have implications beyond the rare genetic disorder — including conditions like schizophrenia. Supported by the Wu Tsai Neuro Big Ideas in Neuroscience grant program.
Image Press coverage | Apr 23 2024 Reuters Alzheimer's drug adoption in US slowed by doctors' skepticism Wu Tsai Neuro and Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience affiliate, Michael Greicius, and others share their expertise on the limitations of the Alzheimer's drug Leqembi.
Image Awards and honors | Apr 18 2024 Stanford Report Seven Stanford faculty named AAAS Fellows Seven Stanford faculty, including Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray, are among the 502 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Image Research news | Apr 17 2024 Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine-led study identifies novel target for epilepsy treatment A little-understood part of the brain appears to be involved in starting seizures and keeping them going, according to Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Ivan Soltesz and team.
Image Research news | Apr 16 2024 Scope Blog Could anesthesia-induced dreams wipe away trauma? Cases of patients who recovered from trauma after dreaming under surgical anesthesia spur Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Boris Heifets and his team to investigate dreaming as therapy.
Image Research news | Apr 15 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience sheds light on childhood gut disorders The recent discovery that intestinal neurons normally self-organize into a striped pattern around the time of birth could help explain wide-ranging GI disorders in children, say Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt and her team.
Image Research news | Apr 11 2024 Scope Blog Imagining virtual reality as a simple tool to treat depression Some of the 17 million Americans afflicted with major depressive disorder each year may soon receive a surprising new prescription from their clinician: Have fun on a virtual reality device.
Image Research news | Apr 11 2024 Stanford Medicine Two key brain systems are central to psychosis, Stanford Medicine-led study find... Inside the brains of people with psychosis, two key systems are malfunctioning: a “filter” that directs attention toward important external events and internal thoughts, and a “predictor” composed of pathways that anticipate rewards.
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 9 2024 Scope Blog Why detecting the earliest biological signs of Parkinson’s disease is so crucial Q&A with Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Kathleen Poston about her work past and present on Parkinson’s disease. Poston studies the pathophysiology underlying the cognitive, behavioral and motor symptoms characteristic of Parkinson’s.
