Awards
- 2020 – Christine Liu accepted to Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program
- 2020 – Brielle Ferguson named Forbes Science 30 under 30 2021
- 2020 – Gil Vantomme Awarded SNF Early Postdoc Mobility Grant
- 2019 – Brielle Ferguson awarded NINDS F32 Individual NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2019 – Michelle Fogerson awarded Grass Foundation Young Investigator Award
- 2018 – Juliet Knowles awarded CURE taking flight award
- 2018 – Chris Makinson awarded NINDS K99/R00 Award
- 2018 – Michelle Fogerson selected to present in Investigators Workshop | Hot Topics from Young Investigators in the Epilepsy Community
- 2017 – Juliet Knowles awarded NIH-NINDS Child Neurologist Career Development Award
- 2016 – Juliet Knowles awarded AES Clinical Research and Training Fellowship for Clinicians
- 2016 – Chris Makinson awarded Wishes for Elliott Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 2016 – Matt Abramian’s contribution to our collaboration with NeuroFab cited in the Stanford Report
- 2015 – John Huguenard elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2015 – Huong Ha awarded Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship
- 2014 – Matt Abramian awarded AES/Epilepsy Foundation Research Training Fellowship
- 2013 – Chris Makinson awarded Epilepsy Foundation Research Training Fellowship
- 2013 – Catherine Christian recieves CURE Taking Flight Award
- 2012 – Catherine Christian recieves McCormick Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2012 – Jeanne Paz awarded K99/R00 from NINDS to study the Role of Thalamus in Post-stroke epileptogenesis
- 2011 – Eric Frechette awarded Epilepsy Foundation Research Training Fellowship for Physicians Award
- 2011 – Catherine Christian awarded Epilepsy Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 2010 – Jeanne Paz awarded Epilepsy Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 2009 – Mark Beenhakker awarded K99/R00 from NINDS to study Enhanced excitation and epilepsy with chloride channel dysfunction
- 2009 – Chris Dulla awarded Epilepsy Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 2008 – Max Kleiman-Weiner awarded Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford
- 2008 – Max Kleiman-Weiner awarded IES Brain Research Foundation Summer Student Fellowship
- 2008 – Hiro Tani awarded Epilepsy Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 2008 – Carolyn Lacey awarded Eric W. Lothman Training Fellowship from the Epilepsy Foundation
- 2007 – John Huguenard recieved American Epilesy Society Research Recognition Award
- 2007 – Julia Brill and Xiaoming Jin awarded Epilepsy Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
- 2007 – Mark Beenhakker awarded Eric W. Lothman Training Fellowship from the Epilepsy Foundation
- 2004 – Jina Shin recipient of AES/Milken Family Foundation Epilepsy Fellowship
- 2004 – John Huguenard receives Javits Award
- 2000 – Sanjay Kumar recipient of AES/Milken Family Foundation Epilepsy Fellowship
In the news
- 2022 Reports on Maladaptive myelination promotes generalized epilepsy progression.
- Epilepsy Currents – That’s a Wrap: Could Controlling Activity-Regulated Myelination Prevent Absence Seizures?
- Nature reviews neuroscience – Seizures beget seizures
- BioX news – Brain plasticity promotes worsening of epileptic seizures, study finds
- CURE epilepsy news – CURE Epilepsy Discovery: Investigating Mechanism of the Progression of Epilepsy
- 2019 Reports on Differentiation and maturation of oligodendrocytes in human three-dimensional neural cultures.
- Medical Center Report – Scientists generate, track development of myelin-producing brain cells
- 2018 Reports on Shank and Zinc Mediate an AMPA Receptor Subunit Switch in Developing Neurons.
- Newsweek – AUTISM LINKED TO ZINC DEFICIENCY IN CHILDHOOD
- Scope Blog – Is zinc the link to how we think? Some evidence, and a word of warning
- Science Daily – Autism and zinc deficiency in early development
- Dan Tri – https://dantri.com.vn/du-hoc/nguoi-viet-dau-tien-doat-giai-thuong-quoc-te-ve-khoa-hoc-than-kinh-20200922231254994.htm
- 2017 Reports on Assembly of functionally integrated human forebrain spheroids
- NPR – ‘Minibrains’ In A Dish Shed A Little Light On Autism And Epilepsy
- The Scientist – Developing Brains in Dishes
- The National Institutes of Health – Human forebrain circuits under construction – in a dish
- The Mirror – Scientists grow human brains in a dish as part of study into psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia
- San Jose Mercury News – Human brain in a dish: Stanford-grown cells fuse — and chat
- Toronto Star – Stanford scientists have grown mini-human brains in a dish
- Nature News and Views – Human development: Advances in mini-brain technology
- Science Daily – A patient’s budding cortex — in a dish? Networking neurons thrive in 3-D human ‘organoid’
- Nature Methods – Organoids: a better in vitro model
- 2017 Reports on Breathing control center neurons that promote arousal in mice.
- Stanford Medicine News – Study shows how slow breathing induces tranquility
- San Jose Mercury News – How slow breathing makes you relaxed
- The Verge – Take a deep breath — no really, it will calm your brain
- NPR – A Tiny Spot In Mouse Brains May Explain How Breathing Calms The Mind
- Today – Study on slow breathing may lead to treatments for anxiety disorders, even SIDS
- Scientific American – Meditation’s Calming Effects Pinpointed in Brain
- Forbes – Science Illuminates Why Slow Breathing Calms The Mind
- The Daily Mail – Deep breathing really DOES work: Technique calms you down as it makes brain cells tell the body to relax
- Psychology Today – The Inside Story of How Slow Breathing Calms You Down New research reveals brain connections between breathing and states of mind
- 2017 Reports on Regulation of Thalamic and Cortical Network Synchrony by Scn8a.
- Stanford Scope Blog – A look into the causes of epilepsy with a Stanford neuroscientist
- 2017 Reports on Bidirectional Control of Generalized Epilepsy Networks via Rapid Real-Time Switching of Firing Mode.
- Science Daily – Research locates absence epilepsy seizure ‘choke point’ in brain
- Epilepsy News Today – Choke Point’ of Absence Seizures Reportedly Found, May Be Way of Preventing Them
- MedicalXpress – Team locates absence epilepsy seizure ‘choke point’ in brain
- 2016 Reports on Enhanced phasic GABA inhibition during the repair phase of stroke: a novel therapeutic target.
- Voice of America – commonly-used-sleeping-pill-may-boost-stroke-recovery
- The Telegraph, UK – Cheap NHS sleeping pill could help stroke victims recover more quickly
- 2015 Reports on Functional cortical neurons and astrocytes from human pluripotent stem cells in 3D culture.
- Spectrum – Autism News – Merging ‘mini-brains’ recapitulates brain’s electrical balance
- National Institutes of Health – A patient’s budding cortex — in a dish?
- Kurzweilai – A 3-D human ‘organoid’ brain in a dish
- SnackableScience – Organoids – using stem cells to grow miniature brains in the lab
- Associated Press – The Big Story – Researchers grow brain parts to study development, disease
- 2014 Reports on Frequency-dependent, cell type-divergent signaling in the hippocamposeptal projection.
- Stanford Report – Stanford scientists reveal complexity in the brain’s wiring diagram
- 2014 Reports on A local glutamate-glutamine cycle sustains synaptic excitatory transmitter release.
- Neuron Preview – Good Housekeeping
- 2013 Reports on Endogenous Positive Allosteric Modulation of GABAA Receptors by Diazepam binding inhibitor.
- Stanford School of Medicine Press Release – Brain makes its own version of Valium, scientists discover
- Time.com – Brain’s Own ‘Valium’ Discovered
- Fox News – Brain capable of making its own version of Valium, researchers find
- Popular Science – Your Brain Makes Its Own Version Of Valium
- Consulenza Benessere – Epilessia: scoperto calmante naturale nel cervello
- Neweurope online – A brain protein can act like the drug and stop seizures Brain can generate its own Valium, researchers found
- Science STKE – EDITORS’ CHOICE: Two Endogenous Modulators in One
- Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence – Brain makes its own version of Valium, Stanford scientists discover
- Epilepsy Ireland – Scientists identify protein in brain that may stop seizures
- Everyday Health – Protein in Brain May Act Like Valium to Stop Some Epileptic Seizures
- ABC Espana – El cerebro produce su proprio <
> - Revoseek – Drugs which Brain Produces Naturally
- Epilepsy Research UK – Brain protein may put brakes on epileptic seizures
- JAMA – Brain Protein May Suggest New Epilepsy Treatment Strategy
- Medical Daily – Brain Makes Its Own Version Of Valium, Provides Clues For Epilepsy Treatment
- The Channelopathist blog – The endozepine mystery
- Neurochemical Research – Endogenous Benzodiazepine Site Peptide Ligands Operating Bidirectionally In Vivo in Neurogenesis and Thalamic Oscillations
- Epilepsy Society – Brain’s natural valium could stop seizures scientists say
- Neuron Preview – In Search of the Ever-Elusive Positive Endozepine
- 2013 Reports on Closed-loop optogenetic control of thalamus as a tool for interrupting seizures after cortical injury.
- Nature Reviews Neurology – Epilepsy in 2013: Progress across the spectrum of epilepsy research
- The LANCET Neurology – Epilepsy: new genes, new technologies, new insights
- Epilepsy Currents – The Right Cells, the Right Place, the Right Result: Transplants to Alleviate Seizures Take a Step Forward
- Science Translational Medicine – ROBOTICS AND NEUROPROSTHETICS Personalized Neuroprosthetics
- The Journal of Neurosurgery: Neurosurgical Focus – Optogenetics in Epilepsy
- Nature Biotechnology – Research Highlights
- Nature Outlook – Neurobiology: Unrestrained excitement
- Robb Report, Health and Wellness – Age of Enlightenment
- Stanford Biomed Bites – Circuit breaker: One Stanford scientist and his quest to control epileptic seizures (video)
- Reports on
- LA Times sciencenow –
Researchers use light to turn off epileptic seizures
- MIT Technology Review –
Flipping on the Lights to Halt Seizures - Inside Stanford Medicine –
Scientists stop rats’ stroke-induced seizures with pulse of light
- Stanford Scope Blog –
Light-switch seizure control? In a bright new study, researchers show how
- Med Page Today: Lab Notes –
Lab Notes: Laser Zaps Seizures in Rats
- SF Gate –
Strokes: New Hope for seizure therapy
- American Epilepsy Society –
optogenetic control of seizures
- Wall Street Journal –
Scientists Cast Light Onto Roots of Illness Deep in the Brain
- Advances in Clinical Neuroscience & Rehabilitation –
Optogenetic Treatment of Epilepsy
- Nature Reviews Neurology – Epilepsy: Shining a light on seizure control—optogenetic approach shows promise for treatment and prevention of epilepsies
- 2012 – LC control of Sleep
- 2011 – News reports on Neocortical excitation/inhibition balance in information processing and social dysfunction
- Eureka Alert – Dual Wavelength Optogenetic control of Neural Circuits
- Nature | News and Views – When lights take the circuits out
- 2011 – News reports on A new mode of corticothalamic transmission revealed in the Gria4(-/-) model of absence epilepsy
- Science Daily – New form of seizure generation discovered
- Epilepsy Currents – How deactivating an inhibitor causes absence epilepsy: validation of a noble lie