Neuroscience News

A new study co-authored by Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray demonstrates a simple way of studying organ aging by analyzing distinct proteins in blood, enabling the prediction of individuals’ risk for diseases.

It turns out that your chronological age really is just a number. What’s more important for knowing disease risk is the biological age of each of your organs.

In today’s mostly plague- and famine-free world, if you can avoid more modern scourges like gun and car violence, you can expect your death to arrive not with a bang but a whimper; when one of your organs sput-sput-sputters out.

This week, we talk with scientist and author David Eagleman about why some people's senses blend together and what it teaches us about how our perceptions shape our reality.

This week, we explore the collective intelligence of ant colonies with Deborah Gordon, a professor of biology at Stanford, an expert on ant behavior, and author of a new book, The Ecology of Collective Behavior.

When Anqi Zhang arrived at Stanford University as a postdoc, she had just spent six years learning to design and build brain implants: miniscule devices that could record the activity of neurons while causing minimal tissue damage.

Ketamine was no more effective than placebo in reducing depressive symptoms in surgical patients with major depression, results of a new study, which contradict prior research, suggest.

Erin Gibson’s lab has discovered that the precursor cells to myelin-producing oligodendrocytes are regulated by the circadian system in mice. When that regulation breaks down, the researchers saw abnormal myelination — but also fragmented sleep.

Working in the Gibson Lab, Brain Resilience Postdoc Scholar Daniela Rojo looks at how abnormal changes in gene activity impact the cells involved in producing myelin to the extent that it leads to neurodegeneration in the brain.

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is pleased to introduce our newest cohorts of Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows (SIGFs).

This week, neuro-linguist Laura Gwilliams breaks down how sound becomes information in the human brain, specifically focusing on how speech is transformed into meaning.

There is no free will, according to Robert Sapolsky, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate, Stanford biologist and neurologist, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant.

Institute Director Kang Shen reflects on the Institute's 10-year anniversary.

Through an unexpected collaboration, Wu Tsai Neuro interdisciplinary postdoc Renzhi Yang discovered that the brain circuits controlling mouse sexual behavior are far more dynamic than researchers had realized.

The interim chief of pediatric neurology at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health discussed progress in preventing seizures among patients with epilepsy, the potential for gene-targeted therapies, and the importance of localizing where seizures are coming f

The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is pleased to welcome our newest graduate student fellows in the neurosciences — including trainees entering the NeuroTech Training Program and Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology (MBCT) Student Membership Program.