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New Knight Initiative research identifies a molecular signature in vulnerable cells that could lead to treatments to promote ALS resilience Image Research news | Jun 17, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute It’s time to revamp the motor homunculus An update to the 89-year-old model shows that the brain’s motor cortex isn’t as neatly organized as previously thought Image Research news | Jun 15, 2026 Stanford Medicine Cell types' biological age predicts our disease risk A blood-test analysis can determine the biological ages of individual cell types and predict the health consequences Displaying 1 - 16 news posts of 352 Filter Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest News Type Wu Tsai Neuro News Knight Initiative news Director's messages Research news Researcher profiles News Features Awards and honors Podcast episodes Press coverage Publications Research Theme NeuroHealth NeuroDiscovery NeuroEngineering Image Research news | Jul 17, 2026 Stanford Medicine Breakdown of immune cells’ interaction is key driver in aging, study finds Two immune cell types’ contact plays a major role in aging, and blocking a hormone’s influence on one of those types halted mice’s age-associated decline in multiple organs Image Podcast episodes | Jul 16, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Is chronic fatigue a gut-brain reflex? Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt takes us inside a new Big Ideas in Neuroscience project aimed at understanding how the gut tells the brain we're sick – and what that might reveal about chronic fatigue and long COVID. Image Researcher profiles | May 27, 2026 Stanford Medicine Harnessing brain imaging to shift the mental health paradigm Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Leanne Williams, who was recently chosen to lead the Precision Mental Health Commission, talks about leveraging a data-driven approach to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | May 22, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience:Translate backs childhood epilepsy drug and a neurological monitori... The program’s 2026 grants advance Wu Tsai Neuro’s mission to transform fundamental neuroscience research into breakthroughs for human health 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 Podcast episodes | May 7, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The FDA's psychedelic sea-change: what it means for mental health and neuroscien... We talk with neuroscientist Boris Heifets about the new federal push to accelerate research on psychedelic drugs for mental health treatment Image Awards and honors | May 6, 2026 Aligning Science Across Parkinson's Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s and The Michael J. Fox Foundation award gran... 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Image Research news | Jul 17, 2026 Stanford Medicine Breakdown of immune cells’ interaction is key driver in aging, study finds Two immune cell types’ contact plays a major role in aging, and blocking a hormone’s influence on one of those types halted mice’s age-associated decline in multiple organs
Image Research news | Jun 24, 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Why do some cells die in ALS but not others? New Knight Initiative research identifies a molecular signature in vulnerable cells that could lead to treatments to promote ALS resilience
Image Research news | Jun 17, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute It’s time to revamp the motor homunculus An update to the 89-year-old model shows that the brain’s motor cortex isn’t as neatly organized as previously thought
Image Research news | Jun 15, 2026 Stanford Medicine Cell types' biological age predicts our disease risk A blood-test analysis can determine the biological ages of individual cell types and predict the health consequences
Image Research news | Jul 17, 2026 Stanford Medicine Breakdown of immune cells’ interaction is key driver in aging, study finds Two immune cell types’ contact plays a major role in aging, and blocking a hormone’s influence on one of those types halted mice’s age-associated decline in multiple organs
Image Podcast episodes | Jul 16, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Is chronic fatigue a gut-brain reflex? Faculty Scholar Julia Kaltschmidt takes us inside a new Big Ideas in Neuroscience project aimed at understanding how the gut tells the brain we're sick – and what that might reveal about chronic fatigue and long COVID.
Image Researcher profiles | May 27, 2026 Stanford Medicine Harnessing brain imaging to shift the mental health paradigm Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Leanne Williams, who was recently chosen to lead the Precision Mental Health Commission, talks about leveraging a data-driven approach to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | May 22, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience:Translate backs childhood epilepsy drug and a neurological monitori... The program’s 2026 grants advance Wu Tsai Neuro’s mission to transform fundamental neuroscience research into breakthroughs for human health
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 Podcast episodes | May 7, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The FDA's psychedelic sea-change: what it means for mental health and neuroscien... We talk with neuroscientist Boris Heifets about the new federal push to accelerate research on psychedelic drugs for mental health treatment
Image Awards and honors | May 6, 2026 Aligning Science Across Parkinson's Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s and The Michael J. Fox Foundation award gran... The teams will tackle questions linked to Parkinson's pathology and mechanisms with an eye toward treatments
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 Research news | Apr 27, 2026 Stanford Medicine Group averages obscure how an individual’s brain controls behavior 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
Image Press coverage | Apr 20, 2026 The New York Times 6 Common Medications That May Lower Your Dementia Risk Shingles vaccines appear to have a protective benefit, Knight Initiative researcher Pascal Geldsetzer has shown.
Image Podcast episodes | Apr 16, 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Could Parkinson's start in the gut? We talk with neurologist Kathleen Poston about early signs of Parkinson's outside the brain and how they might influence treatment and detection
Image News Features | Apr 6, 2026 Stanford Medicine Why women get Alzheimer’s more often than men Stanford Medicine neurologists explain what is known—and still unknown—about the Alzheimer's gender gap
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 | Apr 1, 2026 Simons Foundation Scientists Map Aging Across the Body of a Short-Lived Fish Knight Initiative researchers created a new atlas of aging in the killifish tracks how organs change over time, revealing processes implicated in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
Image Knight Initiative news | Mar 23, 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience New ideas in aging and resilience research launched by Rosenkranz Foundation and... The Rosenkranz Aging and Rejuvenation Seed Grant Program announced eight innovative new research projects with additional support from the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Image Researcher profiles | Mar 18, 2026 Stanford Report Can science slow down aging? Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Steering Committee member Anne Brunet explores what aging really is, how lifestyle choices might influence longevity, and the promising frontiers of aging research
