Featured News Image Featured News | Jun 20 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How a new kind of brain plasticity could help make sense of addiction This week, we talk with Michelle Monje and Rob Malenka about recent findings on the role of myelin plasticity in opioid addiction Image Featured News | May 23 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience and AI: What artificial intelligence teaches us about the brain (an... This week, we talk with Surya Ganguli about the neuroscience of AI, and how advances artificial intelligence could teach us about our own brains. Image Featured News | May 16 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How we remember, why we forget This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with memory expert Anthony Wagner about the nature of memory and how to improve it Image Featured News | May 9 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics Inside Out: How do LSD and psilocybin alter perception? (Part 2) This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about how psychedelics work in the brain. News Filter & Sort Sort by ThemeNeuroHealth NeuroDiscovery NeuroEngineering News TypeResearch news Knight Initiative news Featured News Institute News Podcast episodes Press coverage Researcher profiles Awards and honors Publications Director's messages Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest Image Featured News | Mar 20 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Alzheimer’s risk gene tied to fatty blobs in brain’s immune cells Recent research supported by the Knight Initiative has identified a link between lipid droplets in the microglia to a known genetic risk factor for AD. Image Featured News | Mar 19 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s biomarkers show promise for early diagnosis Two new studies supported by the Knight Initiative highlight groundbreaking new early biomarkers for the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative disease. Image Institute News | Mar 13 2024 Stanford Medicine One step back: Why the new Alzheimer’s plaque-attack drugs don’t work A few closely related drugs, all squarely aimed at treating Alzheimer’s disease, have served up what can be charitably described as a lackadaisical performance. Wu Tsai Neuro and Knight Initiative affiliate Mike Greicius explains why. Image Knight Initiative news | Mar 7 2024 From Our Neurons to Yours The clocks in your body This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we sit down with neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray to learn about how some of your organs may be aging faster than the rest of you Image Knight Initiative news | Feb 29 2024 From Our Neurons to Yours Redefining Parkinson's Disease This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we sit down with Stanford neurologist Kathleen Poston to learn about a sea change in our understanding of Parkinson's Disease. Image Featured News | Feb 22 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Knight-funded research uncovers gene mutations that may prevent Alzheimer’s Dise... Disabling the notorious APOE4 gene might protect against the disease, according to research from Michael Greicius and team. Image Institute News | Feb 20 2024 Stanford Report Six Stanford faculty among 2024 Sloan Research Fellows Knight Initiative Innovation Grant awardee and Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Jonathan Long received a Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding early-career faculty with the potential to revolutionize their fields of study. Image Featured News | Feb 12 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute announces 2024 Neuroscience:Translate awards The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s sixth round of Neuroscience:Translate awards aim to accelerate promising discoveries from the lab to patient impact. Pagination Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page
Image Featured News | Jun 20 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How a new kind of brain plasticity could help make sense of addiction This week, we talk with Michelle Monje and Rob Malenka about recent findings on the role of myelin plasticity in opioid addiction
Image Featured News | May 23 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neuroscience and AI: What artificial intelligence teaches us about the brain (an... This week, we talk with Surya Ganguli about the neuroscience of AI, and how advances artificial intelligence could teach us about our own brains.
Image Featured News | May 16 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How we remember, why we forget This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with memory expert Anthony Wagner about the nature of memory and how to improve it
Image Featured News | May 9 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Psychedelics Inside Out: How do LSD and psilocybin alter perception? (Part 2) This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we talk with anesthesiologist Boris Heifets about how psychedelics work in the brain.
Image Featured News | Mar 20 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Alzheimer’s risk gene tied to fatty blobs in brain’s immune cells Recent research supported by the Knight Initiative has identified a link between lipid droplets in the microglia to a known genetic risk factor for AD.
Image Featured News | Mar 19 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s biomarkers show promise for early diagnosis Two new studies supported by the Knight Initiative highlight groundbreaking new early biomarkers for the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative disease.
Image Institute News | Mar 13 2024 Stanford Medicine One step back: Why the new Alzheimer’s plaque-attack drugs don’t work A few closely related drugs, all squarely aimed at treating Alzheimer’s disease, have served up what can be charitably described as a lackadaisical performance. Wu Tsai Neuro and Knight Initiative affiliate Mike Greicius explains why.
Image Knight Initiative news | Mar 7 2024 From Our Neurons to Yours The clocks in your body This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we sit down with neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray to learn about how some of your organs may be aging faster than the rest of you
Image Knight Initiative news | Feb 29 2024 From Our Neurons to Yours Redefining Parkinson's Disease This week on From Our Neurons to Yours, we sit down with Stanford neurologist Kathleen Poston to learn about a sea change in our understanding of Parkinson's Disease.
Image Featured News | Feb 22 2024 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Knight-funded research uncovers gene mutations that may prevent Alzheimer’s Dise... Disabling the notorious APOE4 gene might protect against the disease, according to research from Michael Greicius and team.
Image Institute News | Feb 20 2024 Stanford Report Six Stanford faculty among 2024 Sloan Research Fellows Knight Initiative Innovation Grant awardee and Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Jonathan Long received a Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding early-career faculty with the potential to revolutionize their fields of study.
Image Featured News | Feb 12 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute announces 2024 Neuroscience:Translate awards The Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute’s sixth round of Neuroscience:Translate awards aim to accelerate promising discoveries from the lab to patient impact.