The Huguenard Lab
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
Scope Blog -
A look into the causes of epilepsy with a Stanford neuroscientist
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
2010 -
This Week in the Journal
Overview of
Focal Cortical Infarcts Alter Intrinsic Excitability and Synaptic Excitation in the Reticular Thalamic Nucleus.
2009 -
This week in the Journal.
Overview of
(Ultra)short latency evoked synaptic inhibition in neocortical circuits
2008 -
Announcement: Open Access to Electophysiology of the Neuron book and software
2008 -
LASER SCANNING PHOTOSTIMULATION: NEW EVIDENCE FOR ENHANCED RECURRENT EXCITATION IN A MODEL OF POSTTRAUMATIC EPILEPSY
2006 -
An Epilepsy Mechanism Revealed
2006 -
BOOSTING KEY PROTEIN IN BRAIN COULD IMPROVE SEIZURE TREATMENT, STANFORD STUDY FINDS
2005 -
Keeping inhibition timely
2005 -
Focus on
"Polyamines modulate AMPA receptor-dependent synaptic response in immature layer V pyramidal neurons".
2005 -
Medscape comment on
"Reorganization of barrel circuits leads to thalamically-evoked cortical epileptiform activity"
2004 -
TINS: Self-administering cannabinoids
2004 -
STKE - NEUROBIOLOGY: Endocannabinoids Are Autoinhibiting
2004 -
Brain creates its own marijuana-like chemicals, scientists find
2003 -
Synaptic physiology - Self control
2003 -
Synaptic Transmission: Functional Autapses in the Cortex
2004 -
Role of distinct NMDA receptor subtypes at central synapses
1999 -
Inhibited Rhythms
1999 -
Faulty receptors may contribute to absence epilepsy, Angelman syndrome
1998 -
Directing traffic in the brain