Browse wide-ranging research at the frontiers of neuroscience supported by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute grants, awards, and training fellowships.
Projects
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
Dynamic acetylcholine regulation in flexible learning and restorative interventions in Parkinson’s disease
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
Early Entorhinal-Hippocampal Vulnerability and Recovery in Alzheimer's Disease
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2025
Establishing the feasibility of plasticity-guided rTMS with cognitive training in MCI
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2025
Mapping Neurophysiological Responses to Exercise in Humans
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2025
Modulation of cerebro-cerebellar circuits using transcranial magnetic stimulation
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
Programmatic Activation of the Neurodegenerative TREM2 Pathway by TCIP1
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2025
Spatial and Behavioral Characterization of Alpha Suppression and Broadband EEG Activity in Visual Attention
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
The role of mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 in glaucoma pathophysiology
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2025
The role of the frontotemporal dementia gene product Progranulin in the homeostasis of the neurodegeneration- associated lipid Bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024
Assessing whether inhibitory rTMS improves brain pathology and language function in Self-limited Epilepsy with Centro-temporal Spikes (SeLECTS)
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024
Biomarkers of awareness and response to treatment in obsessive-compulsive disorder (BARTOC): Implementing EEG-based biomarkers of cognitive control in a pilot study of nitrous oxide inhalation vs placebo in OCD
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024
EEG markers of self-efficacy and self-regulation in chronic pain patients with and without heavy drinking
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
Evaluating the immunomodulatory role of circular RNAs in microglia
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
High-resolution profiling of Alzheimer’s brain resilience
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024
Investigating the role of exteroception in modulating interoception
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024
Mixed-reality neuronavigation for TMS treatment of depression
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
Neural mechanisms of episodic memory resilience in longitudinal aging brains
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024
Pilot study of high-density EEG to assess markers of successful cognitive training in MCI
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024
Sensory-entrained transcranial magnetic brain stimulation (seTMS) for enhanced motor and prefrontal plasticity
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
Sleep and neuronal energy management in neurodegeneration
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024
The contribution of temporal dynamics of visual processing to developmental dyslexia: a steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) study
Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholar Awards (Brain Resilience)
2024
TREM1 in peripheral myeloid cells exacerbates cognitive decline in aging and Alzheimer's disease
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024
Using the N400 component to examine variation in monolingual and bilingual language processing
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Koret Human Neuro Lab Pilot Grant
2024