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Image Research news | Jun 4 2025 Stanford Report A game-changing way to treat stroke Researchers supported by a Neuroscience:Translate grant from Wu Tsai Neuro have developed a new technology for removing blood clots that is more than twice a
Image News Features | Jun 4 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Under the Lights: What Surgery Reveals About Brain Resilience A team at Stanford, supported by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience, is using the biology of recovery to uncover why some aging brains withstand stress while others quietly unravel.
Image Research news | May 14 2025 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Alzheimer's "resilience signature" predicts who will develop dementia—and how fa... Knight Initiative researchers discover a biomarker in spinal fluid that could help forecast Alzheimer’s progression and improve clinical trials.
Image Research news | May 7 2025 Stanford Engineering Fixing cellular recycling centers may help treat neurodegenerative diseases Improving cells’ ability to sort and recycle components—including cholesterol—could lead to therapies for a wide range of neurodegenerative conditions, accor
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.
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 9 2024 Stanford Engineering Spotlight: Lara Weed Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate and NeuroTech alum Lara Weed was always interested in how the world worked, and looking back now, she can see her interest in performance optimization developing over time.
Image Awards and honors | Apr 9 2024 Stanford Report Phil Knight honored with Uncommon Citizen award A dedicated philanthropist and Stanford GSB alum, Knight has provided game-changing support for schools and initiatives across campus.
Image Researcher profiles | Mar 28 2024 Stanford Medicine Serious talk about moods with bipolar disorder expert Po Wang We all get moody -- it's part of human nature. But if you have people in your life afflicted with bipolar disorder, you quickly realize that not all moodiness is created equally.
Image Research news | Mar 27 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Research links age-related inflammation, microglia and Alzheimer’s Disease Pro-inflammatory protein TREM1 in peripheral immune cells may promote age-related cognitive decline and dementia, according to Knight Initiative–funded research.
Image Research news | Mar 25 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuronal and synaptic genes expanded in size and diversity during evolution Wu Tsai Neuro research suggests giant genes could hold the key to the development of complex nervous systems across the animal kingdom.
Image Research news | Mar 22 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Unlocking the secrets of myelin repair New research supported by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute could lead to novel treatments for demyelinating disorders such as multiple sclerosis.
