Neuroscience News

Stanford neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca is pioneering technology to recreate human brain tissue and neural circuits in the lab – giving scientists unprecedented access to human brain development and opening new possibilities for treating disorders from psychiatric disease to chronic pain.

The Global Neurodegeneration Proteomics Consortium gathered a trove of data on potential signs of neurological disease—and researchers including Knight Initiative director Tony Wyss-Coray are already using it to make new discoveries.

An interdisciplinary team of Wu Tsai Neuro scientists working on balls of human neurons called organoids wanted to scale up their efforts and take on important new questions. The solution was all around them.

Knight Initiative-funded research ran the gamut from chemistry to public health, but one theme brought it all together: Studying what makes the brain resilient will help more people live better lives.

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.

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.

Research from the Giocomo lab finds that mice create neural maps of the location of rewards, distinct from the well-known hippocampal maps of an animal's location in space.

Wu Tsai Neuro researcher Karl Deisseroth and colleagues drew on a variety of techniques to probe how emotional responses arise in the brain.

Scientists found that humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to negative sensory inputs – offering insight into emotion and potential links to neuropsychiatric disorders.

Knight Initiative researchers discover a biomarker in spinal fluid that could help forecast Alzheimer’s progression and improve clinical trials.

Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams is unlocking how the brain turns sound into meaning.
 

Molecular biologist Luis de Lecea is mapping the brain circuits that control sleep so we can manipulate them for a better night’s rest.

Favour Nerrise, NeuroTech trainee and NeURO-CC mentor, is competing in Stanford’s inaugural 3-Minute Thesis competition on April 17 presenting research that uses at–home tech and artificial intelligence to spot brain disease.

Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Lauren O’Connell explores the fundamental questions that underlie human relationships

This week on the podcast, Stanford cell biologist Brad Zuchero takes us on a tour of the frontiers of glia-science

Neurotech trainee Favour Nerrise is among 10 grad students who will have three minutes to engage the audience—and a panel of judges—with their research proje