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Official feed of @Stanford Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. Unlocking the mysteries of brain and behavior through cross-disciplinary research.
Joined October 2013
It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Krishna Shenoy. He was a pillar of our community, a brilliant scientist and a beloved mentor and colleague. We share our condolences with Krishna’s family, trainees and colleagues. Details to come on a planned memorial service.
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Stanford is hiring seven open faculty positions in the neurosciences! . These include neurobiology, brain computer interface (BCI), molecular and cellular neurobiology, pathology, and neuropathology. Learn more
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Welcome our newest faculty scholar, Laura Gwilliams (@GwilliamsL)! . Using linguistics, psychoacoustics, machine-learning analyses, and human brain recordings, she aims to enhance our understanding of how our brains process speech at multiple levels.
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A flexible material called "neurostring" can measure neurotransmitters #serotonin and #dopamine in soft #brain and #gut tissue. The invention, led by @ZhenanBao & Xiaoke Chen, will advance the #WuTsaiNeuro @BrOrganogenesis program. via @StanfordBioX:
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Dopamine and serotonin work together in opposite ways, like the accelerator and the brakes on a car, to help the brain learn from rewards, according to new Wu Tsai Neuro-funded research by Rob Malenka and Daniel Cardozo Pinto (@dcardozopinto). Learn more:
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Scientists can now visualize the full spectrum of electrical communication between the human brain and cells in real time thanks to the development of a new genetically encoded voltage indicator called ASAP5 by @MichaelLinLab and team at Wu Tsai Neuro.
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A global team of 150 neuroscientists, including Wu Tsai neuro affiliate Andreas Tolias @AToliasLab, reveals new cell types, characteristics, organizational & functional principles, and a new way to classify cells. Learn more: @StanfordMed @AllenInstitute.
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Congratulations to Laura Gwilliams (@GwilliamsL), our newest @StanfordBrain faculty scholar, on this remarkable advance in the study of human speech! . Read more about her work here:
Researchers @UCSF, led by neurosurgeon Edward Chang, MD, have used #Neuropixels probes to record activity from hundreds of individual neurons while participants listened to speech. Out today in @Nature, this study gives us a view into how the brain analyzes the sounds in words.
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What are the three main components of creativity? Bending, blending, and breaking, explains @davideagleman.
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We welcome @Stanford grad students and postdocs from under-represented bkgds in #neuroscience to apply for our new Pathways to Neurosciences program with @Stanford_Neuro @TopNeuroDocs @StanfordPSY.cc @bioaims @stanfordSURPAS @StanfordVPGE @BlackInNeuro.
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The 10th Annual Neurosciences Symposium is here! . We're celebrating a decade of catalyzing discovery, cultivating community, and accelerating impact in the neurosciences.
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The 11th Annual Neurosciences Symposium is here! We're exploring the co-evolution of AI and neuroscience—a thriving space of innovation and discovery. #BrainsAndMachines
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Meet Erin Kunz, a PhD student in Electrical Engineering, who is making strides in the Brain Computer Interface (BCI) field! She is developing brain-implanted BCIs to restore speech in ALS patients. Learn more about her path to neuroscience research:
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Congratulations to Miriam Goodman (@wormsense) on receiving the Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship from @NINDSnews.
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Why does time seem to speed up as you age? The neural networks that create a novel memory are denser than for a familiar memory, @davideagleman said. When you're a kid, everything seems new; the denser networks make it seem like the memory lasted longer.
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In his new book, @davideagleman "builds the case that the most interesting thing about our brains is the ever-changing landscape of neural connections we create in response both to transient and accumulated experiences." Read the full review in @WSJBooks.
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Thank you for joining us at our first Bay Area Psychedelic Science Symposium. The future of #psychedelicmedicine is bright and we're excited to be a part of it!
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Brain signaling depends on myelin insulation — which declines with age and in disorders like MS. New research led by @tal_iram and Miguel Garcia in @ZucheroLab finds a driver of myelin formation that could lead to new therapies to maintain brain health.
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Stress-taming tips from neurobiologist Andrew Huberman (@hubermanlab), in conversation with the "Future of Everything" podcast host @Rbaltman.
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From using virtual reality to develop treatments for anxiety, to probing the world’s biggest cause of disability, eight initiatives have advanced to the next round of Big Ideas in Neuroscience.
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Just in time for #BINW22, we caught up with @BrielleRyan to chat about her #epilepsy research here at #WuTsaiNeuro, her passion for activism as a @BlackInNeuro co-founder, and her thoughts on juggling both. Don't miss it!
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"It often takes many steps for a patient with #depression to get better. We went into this thinking, ‘Wouldn’t it be better to identify at the beginning of treatment which treatments would be best for which patients?’"
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Congratulations to #WuTsaiNeuro affiliate Anne Brunet (@BrunetLab) & Andrew Dillin @UCBerkeley on winning the 2022 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences for their work on the biological mechanisms of aging! @StanfordMed @FNIH_Org
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“Machine learning does nearly magical things, but it cannot do magic,” said Krishna Shenoy.
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Phil and Penny Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience, a bold new effort anchored at #WuTsaiNeuro to advance the science of healthy #brain aging! 1/7.
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"The best moments of my career have been seeing patients experience rapid relief from their OCD symptoms." - @CRodriguezMDPhD #BrainsBehindTheInstitute
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And for our final speaker, we have Marina Picciotto.(@MarinaP63) discussing "Stress-induced acetylcholine signaling in the hippocampus: too much of a good thing?" #WuTsaiNeuroSymposium
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“At @Stanford, I found it freeing that people actually embraced risks.” – @BrunetLab on setting up her lab to study #aging @StanfordMed #BrainsBehindTheInstitute .
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Congratulations to Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Lisa Giocomo @lisa_giocomo on becoming an HHMI Investigator @HHMINEWS! This award honors her innovative research on spatial navigation and her dedication to mentorship. Learn more: #stanford #neuroscience.
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.@drfeifei: The development of artificial intelligence should be guided by its human impact. Its goal should be enhancing humanity, not replacing it. #StanfordNeuro
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What's next for non-invasive brain stimulation? While some methods—like TMS, EEG, and ultrasound—are already in clinical use, Wu Tsai Neuro researchers are finding new ways to study and treat the brain without implants or drilling through the skull.
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A monkey grabbing for a fly, captured by a synchronized motion tracking and wireless #brain recording system developed by Paul Nuyujukian's Brain Interfacing Lab (@StanfordBioE @TopNeuroDocs) and published @ScienceRobotics . Learn more:
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“We are on the threshold of a very promising era, as we make discoveries about the living brain that were previously unimaginable.” - Neuroscientist and Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne
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Harmful levels of #brain #inflammation could help explain brain fog, fatigue, and other neuro-psychiatric symptoms of #longcovid, according to new research by #WuTsaiNeuro member @wysscoray and colleagues in @Nature .via @StanfordMed
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“It’s remarkable how much the brain is activated by music,” @reneesmusings said in conversation with @StanfordMed. The lyric soprano is spearheading a collaboration between @kencen and @NIH to explore how music can help improve health.
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Short, low-cost interventions can teach patients to gain control over how they experience pain, helping prime their brains for relief instead, @BethDarnall said at Wednesday's @wef meeting in @Davos.
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"The magic in science happens at the interdisciplinary boundaries of a field." - Karen Parker #BrainsBehindTheInstitute
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A tool that transforms brain waves into sound could help medical students and nurses detect "silent seizures"—epileptic seizures without physical convulsions—thanks to @josef_parvizi and Chris Chafe.
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.@Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a recipient of the 2020 Gruber Neuroscience Prize, will donate his financial award to the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and the Neurosciences graduate program to support students underrepresented in the field.
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Thank you to all who joined us at our 3rd annual Institute Retreat! Your interdisciplinary collaboration is the heartbeat of Wu Tsai Neuro and the foundation of our success in neuroscience discovery. #neuroscience #research #stanford
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Could the African turquoise killifish hold the secret to the biology of aging? Researchers from the @BrunetLab and @wysscoray lab have developed new techniques to study the fish from birth to death to find out.
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How did nervous systems evolve across different species? To understand, @mj_mccoy compared gene sizes in different species originating from a common ancestor across Earth's tree of life, revealing that humans and cephalopods have comparable giant genes.
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We applaud our faculty scholar @scott_linderman for receiving the prestigious @McKnightFdn Scholar Award. Learn how he is developing computational tools to extract meaning from complex datasets, bringing us closer to understanding the brain in our Q&A:
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The new grant program "is an inspired way to honor the memory of Ben [Barres], a remarkable person and a beloved mentor who embodied the spirit of the awards in his brilliance, creativity and passion for neuroscience," @StanfordMed Dean Lloyd Minor said.
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High-density single-neuron recordings show diverse tuning for acoustic and phonetic features across layers in human auditory speech cortex, according to research by #WuTsaiNeuro faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams (@GwilliamsL) and team. Learn more: @Nature.
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Turquoise #killifish can pause their development as embryos for years – longer than their adult lifetime. Now, research co-authored by Anne Brunet (@BrunetLab) explains the genetics behind this process, and what it could mean for human aging.
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At 11 years old, Sergiu Pasca opened his first science lab in his parents' basement. Now, he investigates the foundations of brain diseases such as autism, and has won the @Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise.
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Rather than talk about #plasticity, @davideagleman suggests on the @IHubRadio podcast that we think of the brain as “livewired” — a living system “rewriting its own circuitry every moment of your life.”.
Experience physically alters our brains so much that you can distinguish the brain scan of a violinist from that of a pianist, according to @stanford neuroscientist @davideagleman.
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Help us celebrate Longzhi Tan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology. Tan is a lead researcher for Seed Grant project, "Life-long, minimally invasive, and multiplex transcriptional profiling of the cerebellum."
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A new research complex, home to the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and @Stanford_ChEMH, will be accessible to the whole university community, allowing experts from different disciplines to work together in advancing human health.
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"Once you get infected with the 'virus of scientific discovery,' it's impossible to recover." - @PascaStanford #BrainsBehindTheInstitute
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.@michelle_monje discussed her research in neuron-glial interactions in health and disease, from cognition to cancer, at our virtual symposium. Watch live: #neuroscience
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Join us Thursday at noon PT for our #WuTsaiNeuroSeminar to hear about new technologies for studying the #brain circuits involved in repetitive behaviors in #OCD and other disorders with @ahmari_lab @pittpsychiatry
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Hitting the “sweet spot” for understanding aging biology: @BrunetLab researchers, @clairebedbrook & @Ravi__Nath have successfully edited the killifish genome using CRISPR, as reported in @eLife. Learn more: #CRISPR #aging #neuroscience.
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Congrats to the five teams awarded Synthetic Neuroscience Grants to advance tools for studying brain circuits. Tackling challenges that require interdisciplinary expertise, $1.24M was awarded by Wu Tsai Neuro, @Stanford_ChEMH, and @StanfordBioX. 🔗
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We talk about #perception + #memory as distinct parts of our mental lives, but does the #brain care about such distinctions? . #AI tools help disentangle these concepts in a new study by @tylerraye & co-authors @StanfordBrain @StanfordHAI @StanfordPsych.
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"The internet’s impact on how children learn encourages Eagleman, who says the brain learns best and is the most flexible when it's curious." #WuTsaiNeuro member @davideagleman @PRI
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A major challenge in brain-machine interfaces is figuring out what the brain is trying to tell us—and how to reply.
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"Making connections between neurobiology and computer science reminds me that I’m doing what I’ve always loved: exploring how something works, then finding a better way to do things." - @boahen_k #BrainsBehindTheInstitute
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Insel: We simply don’t know enough about the brain to address critical issues in #mentalhealth #SNI2014 @NIMHgov
http://t.co/ONCGa76SED.
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Celebrating #WuTsaiNeuro affiliate Ivan Soltesz (@SolteszLab) on receiving the Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship for his dedication in guiding the next generation of neuroscientists!. This award is from @NINDSnews at @NIH (CC: @stanfordnsurg). #Stanford
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Join us Thurs at noon as #WuTsaiNeuro seminar speaker @erichjarvis (@RockefellerUniv) discusses the evolution of vocal learning and language in songbirds and humans.
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.@Stanford study show fMRI memory detectors can be easily fooled. @fMRI_today
http://t.co/Hcul7atJRl
http://t.co/NOITGKNTYN.
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From creating brain-machine interfaces to restore human capacities, to understanding why people make choices that support their addictions, our Big Ideas projects transform how we understand the brain. What would you explore?
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A decade-long collaboration between chemist @BianxiaoC and a neuroscientist @Sergiu_P_Pasca at Wu Tsai Neuro has led to kirigami-inspired device that can record from brain organoids for months without disrupting their growth. @NatureBiotech
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Q&A: As a grad student @CaitlynSeim invented a vibrating glove that could teach piano & braille. Now the #WuTsaiNeuro Interdisciplinary Scholar is developing #WearableTech to restore movement to #stroke survivors. Read more: @StanfordMed @StanfordEng
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"The internet’s impact on how children learn encourages Eagleman, who says the brain learns best and is the most flexible when it's curious." #WuTsaiNeuro member @davideagleman @PRI
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Stem cell therapy "changes the whole notion—our whole dogma—of what happens after a stroke,” says Gary Steinberg, co-founder of the Stanford Stroke Center.
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Join us today at noon for our weekly #WuTsaiNeuro seminar with @HerveyJumper (@UCSF) to learn how #glioma can influence the brain circuits underlying cognition and whether these interactions influence patient survival
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Celebrating the achievements of our 2023 NeURO & NeURO-CC Fellows! Their summer research shone brightly at our undergrad poster session, where they presented their projects. Thankful for the #WuTsaiNeuro community for their unwavering support!
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A team of Stanford researchers may have solved one of the biggest design challenges to creating artificial digital retinas.
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Congratulations to our 2022 Sammy Kuo Awards in #Neuroscience winners!.Kudos to postdocs @iram_tal @djoshea @omerevah Felicity Gore & @kevinwkelley and grad students @XuLunaSun Avin Veerakumar, Amelie Schafer & @emilykubota. Check out the winning papers:
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While spectators watched from below, workers hoisted into place the highest steel beam of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute and Stanford ChEM-H building, set to open in 2019, during a ceremony known as "topping out."
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In recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Kang Shen and Michelle Monje @michelle_monje have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences @theNASciences (NAS). Read more:
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How can #AI help neurobiologists understand the workings of the brain, and how can #neuroscience advance machine learning? A conversation between Wu Tsai Neuro director Bill Newsome and @StanfordHAI director Fei Fei Li (@drfeifei ) .
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In this week’s podcast episode, Stanford psychiatrist Sergiu Pasca, MD, @Sergiu_P_Pasca explains how growing human brain cells in the lab is leading to potential treatments for disorders of brain development.
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Check out our conversation with @sergeydoestweet about his work developing neural prosthetics for patients with paralysis with @shenoystanford and @JaimieHenderson at #WuTsaiNeuro & his new lab @UCDavisResearch:
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Now we're hearing from Yasmin Hurd (@HurdLab) on human molecular studies translating addiction towards novel interventions #WuTsaiNeuroSymposium
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A collaboration between Institute Faculty Scholars Julia Kaltschmidt and Todd Coleman has identified a step in nervous system control over gut motility. This study, led by Lori Dershowitz, opens doors to understanding GI disorders in premature infants. 🔗
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In this week’s podcast episode, Stanford neuro-oncologist Michelle Monje @michelle_monje explains how many deadly tumors depend on the nervous system’s electrical activity to grow and spread, presenting an exciting new line of attack for oncology research.
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"Everything in science is philosophy at some level." - Rosa Cao, assistant professor of #philosophy. #BrainsBehindTheInstitute.
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We welcome @Stanford grad students and postdocs from under-represented bkgds in #neuroscience to apply for our new Pathways to Neurosciences program with @Stanford_Neuro @TopNeuroDocs @StanfordPSY.cc @bioaims @stanfordSURPAS @StanfordVPGE @BlackInNeuro.
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@Nature @CellCellPress The graduate paper of the year goes to @UcheMedoh of the @abu_remaileh lab for his @ScienceMagazine paper on "The Batten disease gene product CLN5 is the lysosomal bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate synthase."
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Journey, discovery and data are intertwined in a lab. “Failure is a part of doing science too, because there’s uncertainty. You can’t make progress in an uncertain path if you don’t have failures.” - Miriam Goodman (@wormsense) #neuroscience.
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🎙️ From Our Neurons to Yours is back!. In our season opener, Erin Gibson @ErinMGibson discusses the connection between circadian rhythms and neurodegeneration. Do sleep disruptions contribute to Alzheimer's disease, or are they an early sign?. Listen now:
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By means of video goggles or a tiny implant, Daniel Palanker & E.J. Chichilnisky focus on one goal: improving sight.
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“We need scientific language, not a folk language,” says @russpoldrack. He argues that we use ancient words like "attention" to describe a range of mental states and behavior, creating ambiguity in the study of psychology.
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Ibogaine, a plant-based psychoactive compound, safely led to improvements in depression, anxiety and functioning among veterans with traumatic brain injuries, in new study by @StanfordMed researchers, including Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate @NolanRyWilliams.
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We spoke with @PascaStanford about the growing field of neural #organoids & #assembloids and how the ability to grow simplified human #brain circuits in the lab is advancing our knowledge of our remarkable self-organizing brains. Read more:
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“There’s no single part of the brain that explains everything.… Instead it’s this complex cascade of biological influences on our behavior,” Robert Sapolsky says.
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"The human brain builds itself. The rules for assembly come with the system." .– @PascaStanford on the rise of neural #assembloids, simple human #brain circuits grown in the lab from #stemcells. Read our full conversation: (animation by @kevinwkelley)
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Congrats to our Neuroscience:Translate awardees! With the goal of bringing research from the lab to the world, this year's grants support projects on the development of vertigo pharmaceuticals, novel MS imaging, therapies for spinal cord injury, and more.
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Congrats to our 2025 Neuroscience:Translate awardees! Their projects support brain imaging and stimulation technologies to improve depression treatment, broaden access to TMS therapy, and advance methods for imaging inflammation in the brain. Learn more:
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Head to Hall D at 3pm to hear about Inner Workings of Channelrhodopsins and Nervous Systems with Karl Deisseroth (@KarlDeisseroth), Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute affiliate and @stanford professor of bioengineering and psychiatry. #SfN23. Learn more:
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Why is it that someone who hasn’t ridden a bicycle in decades can jump on and ride, but could not recall a name from their 3rd grade class? 🤔. institute member Jun Ding (@BJunDing) explains. #Neuro #Neuroscience #memory @Stanford_Neuro @StanfordNsurg.
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How does sound become meaning in the human brain?. From eardrum vibrations to the storage and manipulation of concepts, neuro-linguist and faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams @GwilliamsL shares the complexities of speech comprehension and language processing.
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