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Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler · Science

From Our Neurons to Yours

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.

Episodes

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Could brain implants read our thoughts? | Erin Kunz

13 Nov 2025
37m
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NeuroForecasting: how brain activity can predict stock prices or viral videos | Brian Knutson

30 Oct 2025
40m
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"Why Brains Need Friends: The Neuroscience of Social Connection" | Ben Rein

16 Oct 2025
38m
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From doodles to Descartes: sketching and the human cognitive toolkit | Judith Fan

02 Oct 2025
40m
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What is psychosis? Navigating an altered reality | Jacob Ballon & Shannon Pagdon

18 Sep 2025
46m
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"I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine" | Daniel Levitin

04 Sep 2025
45m
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How we learn to read (and why some struggle): what neuroscience teaches us about a transformative human technology | Bruce McCandliss

21 Aug 2025
39m
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Why voices light us up—but leave the autistic brain in the dark | Dan Abrams

07 Aug 2025
31m
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Famous & Gravy: Cosmic Marketer and the Meaning of Life | Stephen Hawking

24 Jul 2025
1h 1m
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Can brain science save addiction policy? | Keith Humphreys

10 Jul 2025
45m
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How basic science transformed stroke care

26 Jun 2025
34m
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Surgery as a window into brain resilience | Martin Angst

12 Jun 2025
37m
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Best of: How neural prosthetics could free minds trapped by brain injury | Jaimie Henderson

29 May 2025
22m
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The secrets of resilient aging | Beth Mormino & Anthony Wagner

15 May 2025
36m
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Simulating the brain with AI foundation models | Dan Yamins

01 May 2025
32m
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What ChatGPT Understands | Laura Gwilliams

17 Apr 2025
42m
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What the other half of the brain does | Brad Zuchero

03 Apr 2025
35m
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Stimulating the brain with sound | Kim Butts Pauly and Raag Airan

20 Mar 2025
30m
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This podcast episode from the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University discusses the use of ultrasound technology for non-invasive brain stimulation and drug delivery. The interview features two researchers, Kim Butts Pauly and Raag Airan, who explain how focused ultrasound can stimulate neurons by creat...

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Does good sleep insulate the brain against Alzheimer's? | Erin Gibson

06 Mar 2025
39m
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How to live in a world without free will | Robert Sapolsky

05 Dec 2024
40m
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