Press and Updates
In the Press
Nature Neurocience article by Shari Wiseman
September 2023
Feeling Sexy? Stanford Scientists find where lust lives - in mice
San Jose Mercury News article by Lisa M. Krieger
August 2023
Is Science Getting Closer to the Brain Center for Male Libido?
U.S. News article by Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
August 2023
Stanford Medicine scientists locate key brain circuit containing the seat of male libido
Stanford Medicine article by Bruce Goldman
August 2023
Breakthrough Stanford study locates brain's sexual drive circuitry in mice
SF Chronicle article by Gabe Castro Root
August 2023
Written by Darren Yates, Chief Editor, Nature Reviews Neuroscience August 2023
Mouse Brain Cells Activate When They Witness a Fight
The Scientist Magazine article by
Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, Ph.D.
June 2023
'Mirror neurons' fire up during mouse battles
Nature article by Max Kozlov
February 2023
Scientists discover mirror neurons in mice and find they're tuned into aggression.
Stanford Medicine New Center article by Nina Bai
February 2023
Le campagnol, fidèle en amour, avec ou sans ocytocine
Le Monde article by Nathaniel Herzberg
February 2023
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Scientists Tried to Break Cuddling. Instead, They Broke 30 Years of Research
The Atlantic article by Katherine J. Wu
January 2023
‘Mind-blowing’ study upends conventional wisdom on oxytocin
Spectrum article by Angie Voyles Askham
January 2023
Do Men's and Women's Brains Really Work Differently? A New Study Says Yes
Martha Stewart.com article by Madeline Buiano
January 2022
Sex-typical behavior of mice guided by differences in brain’s gene activity
Stanford Medicine article by Bruce Goldman
January 2022
Male mice hard-wired to recognize sex of other mice
Stanford Medicine article by Bruce Goldman
January 2019
Scientists know how to make mice angry—but mice know how to keep their cool
The first rule of mouse fight club.
Popular Science
July 2017
Social Control of Hypothalamus-Mediated Male Aggression
Faculty F1000 Prime
August 2017
The Strange Case of Aggression and the Brain
Neuron Preview [pdf]
August 2017
City Visions: Male brain, female brain
KALW Interview
July 2017
The cognitive differences between men and women
Stanford Medicine article by Bruce Goldman
June 2017
Lab Updates
October 2023
Renzhi featured in Wu Tsai Neuro Q&A article: Uncovering a role for plasticity in innate behavior
August 2023
Research on "male sexual behavior and reward" from Daniel, Chung-Ha, Renzhi, Vini, et al., published in Cell.
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February 2023
Taehong's identification of aggression-mirroring neurons study published in Cell.
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January 2023
Maricruz's and Yichao's oxytocin receptor knockout study published in Neuron.
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Renzhi Yang joins Wu Tsai Neuro's ninth cohort of Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholars.
August 2022
Vinicius Miessler de Andrade Carvalho has been selected to join the Pew Latin American Fellows Program.
June 2022
Dan Landayan is awarded a Barres Postdoctoral Fellowship.
January 2022
Joe’s paper is now out in Cell! Read it here. Congrats to this dream team for the beautiful story.
Congrats to Nicole, who welcomes her baby girl.
Congrats to Leo Gozali for passing his Quals exam!
July 2021
Congrats to Grace Wang for her Cardinal fellowship!
June 2021
Sayaka Inoue is awarded the Young Investigator's Award from The Japan Neuroscience Society. Sayaka is one of five awardees to receive the high honor.
April 2021
Adarsh Tantry, member of Shah Lab, received offers from multiple top ranked graduate programs in Neuroscience.
Adarsh has accepted to attend Stanford University.
November 2020
Nirao Shah is elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
October 2020
Sayaka Inoue is awarded the 2020 Sammy Kuo Award in Neuroscience for best Postdoctoral Research Paper
September 2020
Nicole Leung is awarded the BRAIN Initiative (NRSA), Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32)
August 2020
Dan Landayan is awarded an NIH Supplement Grant
July 2020
Nicole Leung is awarded the Walter V. and Idun Berry Postdoctoral Fellowship.
November 2019
Sayaka’s paper is published in Cell Journal!
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May 2019
Sama’s paper is published in Cell Reports!
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January 2019
Sayaka welcomes baby Kent - congratulations!
Daniel’s paper is published in Cell
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