Featured News Image Knight Initiative news | May 12 2026 Stanford Report Gift advances research into brain resilience and aging A $90 million gift from Penny and Phil Knight will extend the work of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Image Research news | May 12 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience In pursuit of brain resilience In this research roundup, we look back on some of the ways Knight Initiative scientists have been pursuing ways to keep our minds sharp well into old age Image Researcher profiles | Apr 27 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Could neuroscience help explain miscarriage? Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage spike after age 35. 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From its inception, the university was a place where faculty were encouraged to collaborate across discipli Image Research news | Dec 11 2015 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Scientists reveal brain circuit mechanisms underlying arousal regulation A new study shows that a circuit in a brain structure called the thalamus acts like a radio, with different stations operating at different frequencies and appealing to different “listening audiences.” Image Research news | Dec 10 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope Brain radio: Switching nerve circuit’s firing frequency radically alters alertne... Part of the brain could act like a radio, with different stations operating at different frequencies, playing different kinds of music and variously attracting or repelling different “listening audiences. Image Research news | Dec 7 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope At Stanford, Rep. Jerry McNerney discusses life in Congress, science funding and... Some neuroscience faculty, staff and students got a look behind the scenes of what it’s like to be a scientist in government on Friday from congressman Jerry McNerney, PhD. Image Research news | Dec 3 2015 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Killifish project explores the genetic foundation of longevity Stanford researchers are using the African turquoise killifish as a model to study longevity and have provided its genetic information as a resource for the research community. Image Press coverage | Dec 3 2015 Nature International weekly journal of science Short-lived fish may hold clues to human ageing Turquoise killifish genomes help to explain their 'live fast, die young' lifestyle. Image Press coverage | Nov 26 2015 Forbes What Science Says About Your Brain On Black Friday At least one study found that 99% of the deals out there really aren’t worth it and the frenzy may be waning due to changes in consumer behavior. 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Stanford Physicists Xiao-Liang Qi and Leonardo Senatore won New Horizons in Physics Prizes for their outstanding contributions to fu Image Press coverage | Nov 8 2015 The New York Times Breakthrough Prizes Give Top Scientists the Rock Star Treatment The richest awards in science were handed out Sunday night when the Breakthrough Prize organization presented a total of $21.9 million to physicists, mathematicians, life scientists and one talented high school student. Image Research news | Nov 6 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope Decisions, decisions: How evolution shaped our decision-making Research in neuroscience, psychology, business and economics tells us that a plethora of influences can alter the decisions we make. The author explored some of these factors in a Worldview Stanford course and wrote about them in a Stanford story package, Image Press coverage | Nov 5 2015 AP The Big Story Researchers grow brain parts to study development, disease Dr. Sergiu Pasca, a neuroscientist, used to envy cancer specialists. They could get their hands on tumors for research, while Pasca could not directly study key portions of a living brain. Image Research news | Nov 2 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope Decisions, decisions: How group dynamics alters decisions Research in neuroscience, psychology, business and economics tells us that a plethora of influences can alter the decisions we make. 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Image Knight Initiative news | May 12 2026 Stanford Report Gift advances research into brain resilience and aging A $90 million gift from Penny and Phil Knight will extend the work of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Image Research news | May 12 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience In pursuit of brain resilience In this research roundup, we look back on some of the ways Knight Initiative scientists have been pursuing ways to keep our minds sharp well into old age
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 27 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Could neuroscience help explain miscarriage? Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage spike after age 35. Wu Tsai Neuro postdoc Blake Laham suspects neural signaling in the uterus is partly to blame
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 2 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: ‘To see is to believe’ Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong says that light plays a key role in neuroscience and—and that’s why he’s working with a Big Ideas in Neuroscience team to make transparent brains
Image Research news | Dec 17 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope Building for collaboration spurs innovative science When Stanford’s original main quad was built 125 years ago, it was with the intent of bringing faculty together in its outdoor spaces and walkways. From its inception, the university was a place where faculty were encouraged to collaborate across discipli
Image Research news | Dec 11 2015 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Scientists reveal brain circuit mechanisms underlying arousal regulation A new study shows that a circuit in a brain structure called the thalamus acts like a radio, with different stations operating at different frequencies and appealing to different “listening audiences.”
Image Research news | Dec 10 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope Brain radio: Switching nerve circuit’s firing frequency radically alters alertne... Part of the brain could act like a radio, with different stations operating at different frequencies, playing different kinds of music and variously attracting or repelling different “listening audiences.
Image Research news | Dec 7 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope At Stanford, Rep. Jerry McNerney discusses life in Congress, science funding and... Some neuroscience faculty, staff and students got a look behind the scenes of what it’s like to be a scientist in government on Friday from congressman Jerry McNerney, PhD.
Image Research news | Dec 3 2015 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Killifish project explores the genetic foundation of longevity Stanford researchers are using the African turquoise killifish as a model to study longevity and have provided its genetic information as a resource for the research community.
Image Press coverage | Dec 3 2015 Nature International weekly journal of science Short-lived fish may hold clues to human ageing Turquoise killifish genomes help to explain their 'live fast, die young' lifestyle.
Image Press coverage | Nov 26 2015 Forbes What Science Says About Your Brain On Black Friday At least one study found that 99% of the deals out there really aren’t worth it and the frenzy may be waning due to changes in consumer behavior.
Image Research news | Nov 18 2015 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Insulin-sensitizing drug relieves symptoms of chronic depression in some people Pioglitazone, available generically for treating Type 2 diabetes, improved symptoms of long-term depression in patients also suffering from insulin resistance.
Image Awards and honors | Nov 8 2015 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Deisseroth wins $3 million Breakthrough Prize for leading role in optogenetics d... Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, is the winner of a $3 million 2016 Breakthrough Prize in life sciences for his contributions to the development of optogenetics.
Image Awards and honors | Nov 8 2015 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Three Stanford professors honored by Breakthrough Prize Foundation Karl Deisseroth has been awarded a $3 million Breakthrough Prize in life sciences for his pioneering work in optogenetics. Stanford Physicists Xiao-Liang Qi and Leonardo Senatore won New Horizons in Physics Prizes for their outstanding contributions to fu
Image Press coverage | Nov 8 2015 The New York Times Breakthrough Prizes Give Top Scientists the Rock Star Treatment The richest awards in science were handed out Sunday night when the Breakthrough Prize organization presented a total of $21.9 million to physicists, mathematicians, life scientists and one talented high school student.
Image Research news | Nov 6 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope Decisions, decisions: How evolution shaped our decision-making Research in neuroscience, psychology, business and economics tells us that a plethora of influences can alter the decisions we make. The author explored some of these factors in a Worldview Stanford course and wrote about them in a Stanford story package,
Image Press coverage | Nov 5 2015 AP The Big Story Researchers grow brain parts to study development, disease Dr. Sergiu Pasca, a neuroscientist, used to envy cancer specialists. They could get their hands on tumors for research, while Pasca could not directly study key portions of a living brain.
Image Research news | Nov 2 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope Decisions, decisions: How group dynamics alters decisions Research in neuroscience, psychology, business and economics tells us that a plethora of influences can alter the decisions we make. The author explored some of these factors in a Worldview Stanford course and wrote about them in a Stanford story package,
Image Research news | Oct 29 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope Decisions, Decisions: How mental-health issues alter decision-making Research in neuroscience, psychology, business and economics tells us that a plethora of influences can alter the decisions we make. The author explored some of these factors in a Worldview Stanford course and wrote about them in a Stanford story package,
Image Research news | Oct 27 2015 Stanford Medicine - Scope Decisions, decisions: How emotions alter our decisions Research in neuroscience, psychology, business and economics tells us that a plethora of influences can alter the decisions we make. The author explored some of these factors in a Worldview Stanford course and wrote about them in a Stanford story package,