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  1. Podcast episodes Surgery as a window into brain resilience

    In which anesthesiologist Martin Angst shares how studying the biology of recovery may reveal why some aging brains withstand stress while others quietly unravel.

    • Brain aging
    • Clinical / translational research
    • Circuits and systems

  2. Research news Locations of treats are stored in specialized neural maps

    Research from the Giocomo lab finds that mice create neural maps of the location of rewards, distinct from the well-known hippocampal maps of an animal's location in space.

    • Circuits and systems
    • Brain function
    • Discovery science

  3. News Features Under the Lights: What Surgery Reveals About Brain Resilience

    A team at Stanford, supported by the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience, is using the biology of recovery to uncover why some aging brains withstand stress while others quietly unravel.

    • Clinical / translational research
    • Brain aging

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