Featured News Image 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 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 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 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. News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroDiscovery NeuroHealth NeuroEngineering News TypeResearch news Press coverage Awards and honors Featured News Institute News Knight Initiative news Researcher profiles Podcast episodes Publications Director's messages Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest news | Aug 29 2018 NPR Ketamine, A Promising Depression Treatment, Seems To Act Like An Opioid A new study suggests that ketamine, an increasingly popular treatment for depression, has something in common with drugs like fentanyl and oxycodone. news | Aug 20 2018 SF Chronicle Expanded Awareness: Turning the Tables on Your Brain Sometimes the enormous success of science leads to some wrong assumptions. In the case of brain science, the advent of sophisticated brain scans opened a window to the brain as never before. Image news | Aug 20 2018 Stanford Medicine - Scope To help patients quash pain, researcher develops practical guide for health care... In a new book, Stanford pain psychologist Beth Darnall offers practical tools for health care providers to help their patients reduce pain. news | Aug 20 2018 The Atlantic America’s Invisible Pot Addicts More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead. news | Aug 16 2018 SF GATE Better health might depend on a good night’s sleep Getting a sound night’s sleep is important for good health. But, sometimes older adults get much less sleep than they need. Health experts say seniors could sleep better if they made some simple changes. news | Aug 12 2018 Scientific American Serotonin Revived as a Possible Target for Autism Treatments Speeding up the chemical messenger’s action makes autism-modeling mice more social Image news | Aug 8 2018 Stanford Medicine - Scope Reaching for new stroke treatments by understanding proprioception Stanford mechanical engineering PhD student Sean Sketch is working to better understand proprioception — in the hope of one day helping people for whom sense has been impaired by stroke or other diseases. Image news | Aug 8 2018 Stanford Medicine - Scope On/off sociability switch in brain identified, could play a role in autism The release of a single signaling chemical from a specific nerve-cell tract in a particular part of the brain, like an on/off switch, may spell the difference between sociability and social awkwardness. Pagination Previous page Page 86 Page 87 Current page 88 Page 89 Page 90 Next page
Image 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 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 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 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.
news | Aug 29 2018 NPR Ketamine, A Promising Depression Treatment, Seems To Act Like An Opioid A new study suggests that ketamine, an increasingly popular treatment for depression, has something in common with drugs like fentanyl and oxycodone.
news | Aug 20 2018 SF Chronicle Expanded Awareness: Turning the Tables on Your Brain Sometimes the enormous success of science leads to some wrong assumptions. In the case of brain science, the advent of sophisticated brain scans opened a window to the brain as never before.
Image news | Aug 20 2018 Stanford Medicine - Scope To help patients quash pain, researcher develops practical guide for health care... In a new book, Stanford pain psychologist Beth Darnall offers practical tools for health care providers to help their patients reduce pain.
news | Aug 20 2018 The Atlantic America’s Invisible Pot Addicts More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead.
news | Aug 16 2018 SF GATE Better health might depend on a good night’s sleep Getting a sound night’s sleep is important for good health. But, sometimes older adults get much less sleep than they need. Health experts say seniors could sleep better if they made some simple changes.
news | Aug 12 2018 Scientific American Serotonin Revived as a Possible Target for Autism Treatments Speeding up the chemical messenger’s action makes autism-modeling mice more social
Image news | Aug 8 2018 Stanford Medicine - Scope Reaching for new stroke treatments by understanding proprioception Stanford mechanical engineering PhD student Sean Sketch is working to better understand proprioception — in the hope of one day helping people for whom sense has been impaired by stroke or other diseases.
Image news | Aug 8 2018 Stanford Medicine - Scope On/off sociability switch in brain identified, could play a role in autism The release of a single signaling chemical from a specific nerve-cell tract in a particular part of the brain, like an on/off switch, may spell the difference between sociability and social awkwardness.