Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University Videos
Videos by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University. Dedicated to understanding the mind and brain in health and disease.
Scientists often study rare disorders to gain insight into more common conditions. Leading these efforts is Stanford psychiatrist Sergiu Pasca, MD, who has developed groundbreaking technologies to better study these complex neurological conditions.
In this week’s podcast, Dr. Pasca describes his innovative work transplanting these brain organoids into rat brains, a major step toward understanding complex neurological conditions and exploring potential treatments for rare genetic disorders like Timothy syndrome.
Listen to the latest episode of “From Our Neurons to Yours” here:
https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/unraveling-timothy-syndrome-new-science-human-brain-development
#stanford #timothysyndrome #mentalhealth
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Scientists often study rare disorders to gain insight into more common conditions. Leading these efforts is Stanford psychiatrist Sergiu Pasca, MD, who has developed groundbreaking technologies to better study these complex neurological conditions. In this week’s podcast, Dr. Pasca describes his innovative work transplanting these brain organoids into rat brains, a major step toward understanding complex neurological conditions and exploring potential treatments for rare genetic disorders like Timothy syndrome. Listen to the latest episode of “From Our Neurons to Yours” here: https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/unraveling-timothy-syndrome-new-science-human-brain-development #stanford #timothysyndrome #mentalhealth
Kirigami electrode video
3d rendering of a flat kirigami electrode array expanding into a 3-d "cradle" to support and study the development of human brain organoids and assembloids.
Image courtesy of the Cui lab and Pasca lab.
Learn more: https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/kirigami-electrodes-unfold-new-horizons-brain-organoid-research
Apply for Stanford Neuro Undergrad Research by Feb 9, 2024
Wu Tsai Neuro is seeking applications for the 2024 @Stanford Undergrad Neuroscience Research Opportunity! Apply by Feb 9, 2024.
Learn more and apply: https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/about-us/what-we-do/training-programs-fellowships/neuro-and-neuro-cc-fellowship
Apply for Stanford Neuro Undergrad Research by Feb 9, 2024
Wu Tsai Neuro is seeking applications for the 2024 @Stanford Undergrad Neuroscience Research Opportunity! Apply by Feb 9, 2024.
Learn more and apply: https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/about-us/what-we-do/training-programs-fellowships/neuro-and-neuro-cc-fellowship
Open Nominations: Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar Series 2024-2025
Tomorrow is the last day to submit a speaker nomination for the 2024-2025 Wu Tsai Neuro Seminar Series!
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3MlRJ7v
Submit by Thursday, Nov 16 at 5pm PST https://buff.ly/3MoKJ9Z
Respect your biological clock
Daylight Savings is here whether our circadian rhythms like it or not.
In this podcast, we talk with Dr. Erin Gibson of Stanford Sleep Medicine about the science of our biological clocks and how we can help them adapt when we "spring forward." https://stanford.io/3JwNDZn
Is addiction a disease?
Is addiction a disease?
We explore this question and its public policy implications on our latest podcast episode with Dr. Keith Humphreys, Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford Medicine.⬇️
https://pod.link/1664298141
Your gut - the second brain?
New episode alert! 🧠 Why is the gut sometimes known as the second brain? How can it affect mood, behavior and mental health? Dive into the world of the gut-brain connection with #wutsaineuro faculty scholar Julia Kaltschmidt, associate professor in Stanford Neurosurgery at Stanford Medicine! https://pod.link/1664298141
Octopus and squid brains may be completely different from our own, but studying them can help us understand the evolution of human brains and intelligence. Learn more from #WuTsaiNeuro postdocs Ernie Hwaun and Matt McCoy in today's podcast! https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/octopus-brains Stanford Pathology Stanford Neurosurgery #pathology #neurosurgery #brainhealth #intelligence
Check out episode 2 of our podcast! "The Mystery of Migraines" features Gabriella Muwanga discussing the science behind these painful episodes and her research with Vivianne Tawfik and Raag Airan. https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/mystery-migraines
Psychedelics and Empathy
Learn why psychiatrists are taking a fresh look at MDMA in the first episode of our new podcast, "From Our Neurons to Yours" featuring guest Robert Malenka! #podcast #mdma #psychedelics https://stanford.io/3RbszK1
Eavesdropping on Brain Activity Turns Imagined Handwriting to Text
A team of neuroscientists, engineers, and neurosurgeons at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute have developed a new and improved method for letting people with paralysis communicate freely and rapidly by translating brain activity to text.
Their new approach worked by decoding brain activity recorded while a clinical trial participant with severe paralysis imagined writing out letters and words by hand.
Watch the video to find out why decoding imagined handwriting doubled the brain-to-text world record the team last set in 2017 and how the researchers' partnership with clinical trial participants is advancing technology that could one day help people with severe paralysis communicate more freely.
Read the whole story here: https://stanford.io/3w8ghqf
Pikachu Brain
Adults who played Pokémon videogames extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to Pikachu pics and other characters from the series, Kalanit Grill-Spector and Jesse Gomez found: https://stanford.io/2Y5zEPq
Martha Farah, director of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford science writer Nathan Collins discuss Dr. Farah’s work on socioeconomic status and brain development.