Stanford Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience

@BrainResilience

Official account of the Phil & Penny Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at @StanfordBrain. Pursuing a bold new science of healthy brain aging.

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Stanford Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience @BrainResilience 2d

Stanford researchers studied “super agers” and Alzheimer’s patients to decode brain activity patterns that predict vulnerability or resilience to cognitive decline. Funded in part by a joint Rosenkranz Foundation-Knight Initiative grant.

Read more: med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/…

Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues hope that brain activity patterns can help identify people who are likely to develop Alzheimer’s, allowing for early interventions. Image credit: Zhang lab.

Kanhao (Alex) Zhao, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in psychiatry and lead author of the study.

Yu Zhang, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and senior author of the study.

Stanford Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience @BrainResilience Nov 6

The KI-Rosenkranz Aging Symposium has begun! Stanford geneticist Anne Brunet (@brunetlab) introduced keynote speaker Luigi Ferrucci (@NIH), who discussed brain resilience as an emergent property of coordinated physiology rather than the result of brain-specific mechanisms alone.

Stanford geneticist Anne Brunet opens the Knight Initiative - Rosenkranz Aging Symposium. She introduces keynote speaker Luigi Ferrucci.

Stanford Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience @BrainResilience Nov 6

Our Fall 2026 symposium is today! We look forward to scientific talks by:
🟣 Luigi Ferrucci — @NIH Aging
🟣 Botond Roska — @IOB_ch
🟣 @HolstegeHenne — @amsterdamumc
🟣 Ashley Webb — @BuckInstitute
🟣 Felix Boos — @StanfordMed Genetics
🟣 Yue Sun — Stanford Humanities & Sciences

Text: Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience, Fall 2026 Symposium.

Photo collage: Top row, left to right: Luigi Ferrucci and Henne Holstege. Bottom row, left to right: Ashley Webb, Felix Boos, and Yue Sun.

Stanford Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience @BrainResilience Oct 27

Our brains and spinal cords contain many cell types, including motor neurons that control movement and breathing.

Why only some motor neurons degenerate is a major mystery of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Aaron Gitler and his lab seek answers. Article link in thread.

Aaron Gitler is a professor of genetics and a member of the Steering Committee for the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience. His lab studies ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Stanford Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience @BrainResilience Oct 22

Only two weeks left to register for the Knight Initiative - Rosenkranz Aging Symposium on Nov 6!

Registration is required by Nov 3. Stanford affiliates may also sign up to present a research poster through the registration form by Nov 3.

Registration link in the thread below.

At the Knight Initiative's Spring 2026 Symposium, Nir Barzilai shared how he and colleagues are studying hundreds of centenarian families to understand how they remain resilient past the age of 100. Photo credit: Ola Hopper.