Neuroscience News

Brain Resilience Postdoc Heankel Lyons and Pathways to Neurosciences trainee Airi Yoshimoto will receive three years of funding from the Jane Coffin Childs Fund for Medical Research

New Knight Initiative research identifies a molecular signature in vulnerable cells that could lead to treatments to promote ALS resilience

The motor cortex is organized into an “intermixed jumble of tiles” to generate meaningful movement

Monther Abu-Remaileh takes us inside the lysosome, a cellular recycling center that could change how we think about Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's, and more

An update to the 89-year-old model shows that the brain’s motor cortex isn’t as neatly organized as previously thought

We talk with neurolinguist Cory Shain about the quintessential human superpower – language – and a new Big Ideas in Neuroscience project to understand it

Brief electrical pulses trigger a molecular “reboot and rebound” in sea squirts, pointing toward new strategies to mitigate age-related decline, according to research backed in part by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience.

Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray and colleagues have found a way to measure organs' biological age

We talk with neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector about how the things we see in childhood – words, faces, even cartoon creatures – reorganize our brains

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

The teams will tackle questions linked to Parkinson's pathology and mechanisms with an eye toward treatments

Dan Jurafsky, Art Owen, and Robert Sapolsky join the scholarly society, which works to promote science for the public good

We talk with psychiatrist Neir Eshel about why rewards are sweeter when we've had to work for them and what this teaches us about our brains' reward systems

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

Studying brain scan data from individuals—not group averages—reveals key brain-function differences in children who struggle with goal-oriented tasks, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Vinod Menon and colleagues

The Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate, Pfeiffer and Herold Families Professor and professor, and chair of biochemistry in the School of Medicine studies the genetic and epigenetic control of chromosome organization, function, and inheritance