Predicting the brain: the Stanford Digital Brain Project | Dan Yamins & Russ Poldrack

From Our Neurons to Yours · Nov 2, 2026 · 54m

This week, Wu Tsai Neuro launched the Stanford Digital Brain Project, an ambitious effort to build predictive models of the human brain.

So today on the show, we’re bringing you two conversations to get you up to speed on what this new initiative is and why it matters.

First we’re going to revisit a conversation from last year with Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Dan Yamins about the vision for building digital models of the brain. We talked about how such models would let neuroscientists test hypotheses about brain function or develop personalized interventions for brain diseases in a virtual…