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 | Dec 6 2023 Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine-led study finds way to predict which of our organs will fail f... A new study co-authored by Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray demonstrates a simple way of studying organ aging by analyzing distinct proteins in blood, enabling the prediction of individuals’ risk for diseases. Image Knight Initiative news | Dec 6 2023 Scientific American Your Organs Might Be Aging at Different Rates It turns out that your chronological age really is just a number. What’s more important for knowing disease risk is the biological age of each of your organs. Image Research news | Dec 6 2023 Stanford Medicine Human Neural Circuitry program seeks to investigate deepest mysteries of brain f... Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Karl Deisseroth, Carolyn Rodriguez, Vivek Buch, Paul Nuyujukian, and team have created a super-charged, multidisciplinary in-patient research program and laboratory to better understand neuropsychiatric disorders. Image Research news | Nov 27 2023 Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine study reveals why we value things more when they cost us more It may not be smart, but we value something more if we’ve put a lot of sweat equity into it. Affiliates Neir Eshel and Rob Malenka, with support from the Wu Tsai Neuro–funded NeuroChoice Initiative, may have figured out the biochemical basis of why. Image Research news | Nov 19 2023 USA Today People on meds for depression are showing fewer cases of cancer. Is there a link... Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and other researchers find understanding the interplay between cancer tumors and the nervous system may be essential for winning the war on cancer. Image Research news | Nov 10 2023 Stanford Medicine Magazine Where is 'I'? Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Josef Parvizi unveils the surprising role of a small structure sandwiched between the brain’s two hemispheres. Image Knight Initiative news | Nov 10 2023 Stanford Medicine Magazine Can we get along? Stanford Medicine queried Wu Tsai Neuro and Knight Initiative affiliates share their expertise on the what the human brain are thinking about humans vs AI. Image Featured News | Oct 30 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Surprising finding links sleep, brain insulation, and neurodegeneration Erin Gibson’s lab has discovered that the precursor cells to myelin-producing oligodendrocytes are regulated by the circadian system in mice. When that regulation breaks down, the researchers saw abnormal myelination — but also fragmented sleep. Pagination Previous page Page 5 Page 6 Current page 7 Page 8 Page 9 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 | Dec 6 2023 Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine-led study finds way to predict which of our organs will fail f... A new study co-authored by Knight Initiative Director Tony Wyss-Coray demonstrates a simple way of studying organ aging by analyzing distinct proteins in blood, enabling the prediction of individuals’ risk for diseases.
Image Knight Initiative news | Dec 6 2023 Scientific American Your Organs Might Be Aging at Different Rates It turns out that your chronological age really is just a number. What’s more important for knowing disease risk is the biological age of each of your organs.
Image Research news | Dec 6 2023 Stanford Medicine Human Neural Circuitry program seeks to investigate deepest mysteries of brain f... Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Karl Deisseroth, Carolyn Rodriguez, Vivek Buch, Paul Nuyujukian, and team have created a super-charged, multidisciplinary in-patient research program and laboratory to better understand neuropsychiatric disorders.
Image Research news | Nov 27 2023 Stanford Medicine Stanford Medicine study reveals why we value things more when they cost us more It may not be smart, but we value something more if we’ve put a lot of sweat equity into it. Affiliates Neir Eshel and Rob Malenka, with support from the Wu Tsai Neuro–funded NeuroChoice Initiative, may have figured out the biochemical basis of why.
Image Research news | Nov 19 2023 USA Today People on meds for depression are showing fewer cases of cancer. Is there a link... Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Michelle Monje and other researchers find understanding the interplay between cancer tumors and the nervous system may be essential for winning the war on cancer.
Image Research news | Nov 10 2023 Stanford Medicine Magazine Where is 'I'? Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Josef Parvizi unveils the surprising role of a small structure sandwiched between the brain’s two hemispheres.
Image Knight Initiative news | Nov 10 2023 Stanford Medicine Magazine Can we get along? Stanford Medicine queried Wu Tsai Neuro and Knight Initiative affiliates share their expertise on the what the human brain are thinking about humans vs AI.
Image Featured News | Oct 30 2023 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Surprising finding links sleep, brain insulation, and neurodegeneration Erin Gibson’s lab has discovered that the precursor cells to myelin-producing oligodendrocytes are regulated by the circadian system in mice. When that regulation breaks down, the researchers saw abnormal myelination — but also fragmented sleep.