From Our Neurons to Yours
By Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler
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This award-winning show from Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is a field manual for anyone who wants to understand their own brain and the new science reshaping how we learn, age, heal, and make sense of ourselves.
Each episode, host Nicholas Weiler sits down with leading scientists to unpack big ideas from the frontiers of the field—brain-computer interfaces and AI language models; new therapies for depression, dementia, and stroke; the mysteries of perception and memory; even the debate over free will. You’ll hear how basic research becomes clinical insight and how emerging tech might expand what it means to be human. If you’ve got a brain, take a listen.
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A new precision neuroscience of language (Big Ideas in Neuroscience) | Cory Shain
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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How childhood (and Pokémon) shape how we see the world | Kalanit Grill-Spector
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May 21, 2026 |
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The FDA's psychedelic sea-change: what accelerated clinical trials for psilocybin, methylone, and ibogaine mean for mental health and neuroscience research | Boris Heifets
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May 07, 2026 |
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Will work for dopamine: why hard work motivates us | Neir Eshel
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Could Parkinson's start in the gut? | Kathleen Poston
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Big Ideas: How see-through brains could transform neuroscience | Guosong Hong
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Could boosting gut–brain communication prevent memory loss? A tale of microbes, memory, and our internal senses | Christophe Thaiss
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Why do some of us age faster than others? | Claire Bedbrook and Ravi Nath
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Big Ideas in Neuroscience: A new neuroscience of pregnancy | Nirao Shah & Katrin Svensson
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Why do our minds wander? What the brain's default mode tells us about our humanity | Vinod Menon
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Is Alzheimer's an energy crisis in the brain? Inflammation, metabolism and a new path in the search for cures | Kati Andreasson
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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"The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines" | Jay McClelland
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Could brain implants read our thoughts? | Erin Kunz
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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NeuroForecasting: how brain activity can predict stock prices or viral videos | Brian Knutson
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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"Why Brains Need Friends: The Neuroscience of Social Connection" | Ben Rein
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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From doodles to Descartes: sketching and the human cognitive toolkit | Judith Fan
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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What is psychosis? Navigating an altered reality | Jacob Ballon & Shannon Pagdon
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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"I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine" | Daniel Levitin
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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How we learn to read (and why some struggle): what neuroscience teaches us about a transformative human technology | Bruce McCandliss
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Why voices light us up—but leave the autistic brain in the dark | Dan Abrams
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Famous & Gravy: Cosmic Marketer and the Meaning of Life | Stephen Hawking
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Can brain science save addiction policy? | Keith Humphreys
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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How basic science transformed stroke care | Marion Buckwalter
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Surgery as a window into brain resilience | Martin Angst
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Best of: How neural prosthetics could free minds trapped by brain injury | Jaimie Henderson
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May 29, 2025 |
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The secrets of resilient aging | Beth Mormino & Anthony Wagner
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May 15, 2025 |
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Building AI simulations of the human brain | Dan Yamins
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May 01, 2025 |
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What ChatGPT understands: Large language models and the neuroscience of meaning | Laura Gwilliams
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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What the other half of the brain does | Brad Zuchero
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Stimulating the brain with sound | Kim Butts Pauly and Raag Airan
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Does good sleep insulate the brain against Alzheimer's? | Erin Gibson
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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How to live in a world without free will | Robert Sapolsky
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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The power of psychedelics meets the power of placebo: ketamine, opioids, and hope in depression treatment | Boris Heifets & Theresa Lii
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Seeing sounds, tasting colors: the science of synaesthesia with David Eagleman (re-release)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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The BRAIN Initiative: the national vision for the future of neuroscience is now in doubt | Bill Newsome
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The cannabinoids within: how marijuana hijacks an ancient signaling system in the brain | Ivan Soltesz
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Memory Palaces: the science of mental time travel and the brain's GPS system | Lisa Giocomo (Re-release)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Why new Alzheimer's drugs don't work | Mike Greicius, Stanford University School of Medicine
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Depression's distinctive fingerprints in the brain | Leanne Williams, Stanford University
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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How the brain helps cancers grow | Michelle Monje
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Unraveling Timothy Syndrome: the new science of human brain development | Sergiu Pasca
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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How VR could help treat depression with "radical behaviorist" Dr. Kim Bullock
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Electronic skin and the future of wearable technology | Zhenan Bao
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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How a new kind of brain plasticity could help make sense of addiction | Michelle Monje and Rob Malenka
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Our plastic brains: learning, memory and aging with the one and only Carla Shatz (Rerelease)
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Programming Announcement
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May 30, 2024 |
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Neuroscience and AI: What artificial intelligence teaches us about the brain (and vice versa) | Surya Ganguli
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May 23, 2024 |
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How we remember, why we forget | Anthony Wagner
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May 16, 2024 |
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Psychedelics Part 2: How do drugs alter our perceptions? | Boris Heifets
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May 09, 2024 |
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Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams | Boris Heifets (part 1)
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May 02, 2024 |
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Why our brains are bad at climate change | Nik Sawe
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Famous & Gravy: Mind Traveler | Oliver Sacks
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The clocks in your body | Tony Wyss-Coray
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Redefining Parkinson's Disease | Kathleen Poston
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Space and Memory | Lisa Giocomo
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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OCD & Ketamine | Carolyn Rodriguez
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Why we do what we do | Neir Eshel
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Brain-Machine Interfaces | Jaimie Henderson
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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An electrical storm in the brain | Fiona Baumer
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Seeing sound, tasting color | David Eagleman
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Why sleep keeps us young | Luis de Lecea
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Where ant colonies keep their brains | Deborah Gordon
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Why we get dizzy | Kristen Steenerson
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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How we understand each other | Laura Gwilliams
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Exercise and the brain | Jonathan Long
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Aging and Brain Plasticity | Carla Shatz
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Brain stimulation & "psychiatry 3.0" | Nolan Williams
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May 25, 2023 |
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Brain Fog | Michelle Monje
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May 11, 2023 |
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Assembling the brain | Sergiu Pasca
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Parenting Lessons from Frogs and Spiders | Lauren O'Connell
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Virtual Touch | Allison Okamura
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Brain Rejuvenation | Tony Wyss-Coray
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Building a bionic eye | EJ Chichilnisky
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Respect your Biological Clock | Erin Gibson
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Is Addiction a Disease? | Keith Humphreys
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Your gut - the second brain? | Julia Kaltschmidt
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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The Octopus Brain | Ernie Hwaun & Matt McCoy
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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The Mystery of Migraines | Gabriella Muwanga
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Psychedelics and Empathy | Rob Malenka
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Announcing: From Our Neurons to Yours!
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Jan 10, 2023 |