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Working at the intersection of hardware and software engineering, researchers are developing new techniques for improving 3D displays for virtual and augmented reality technologies.

In a double-blind controlled study, high doses of magnetic brain stimulation, given on an accelerated timeline and individually targeted, caused remission in 79% of trial participants with severe depression.

Former trainees of late Stanford neuroscientist Ben Barres have cracked a puzzle Barres had long pursued, identifying key neurotoxic factors secreted by astrocytes. Barres shares senior authorship on their new paper, published in Nature.

A small study by Stanford Medicine researchers puts a fine point on the concern that major surgery, which is highly invasive, may accelerate cognitive decline in some patients. Nobody would argue that undergoing a major surgical procedure is a walk in the

Does the development of an artificial intelligence also require an artificial body to go with it? To study this question, Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Fei-Fei Li, Surya Ganguli and colleagues created simple artificial animals, dubbed "unimals", and placed the

New research in mice by scientists affiliated with the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has shown how targeted stimulation of the brain’s serotonin system could improve memory for new acquaintances, even after a brief introduction.

A recent article in the journal Nature credits Stanford physician-neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca, MD, with blazing a trail toward a more profound understanding of early brain development, and of what can go wrong in the process, using a cell-based research i

Alongside Kristy Red-Horse of Stanford Medicine, these researchers join 21 other Stanford faculty as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. The seven-year term frees faculty to pursue the most innovative biomedical research.

The idea that a drug could break through the brain's limitations to release our untapped potential has been fodder for many a science fiction tale, but a new study suggests this may not be as far-fetched as you might think.

Liqun Luo discusses a new Science review on the architecture of neural circuits and its implications for artificial intelligence research.

I'm infamous in my household for being found with my head in the refrigerator, frozen as I wonder what it was I went to get. This doesn't seem to happen to my wife, who can keep five separate tasks running in her head without forgetting a thing. So I was

Lisa Giocomo and colleagues find that initial memory formation may involve both awareness of our location as well as what we were feeling when we were there.

Deborah Gordon's nearly 30-year survey, conducted at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, has found that the distribution of Argentine ants has shrunk as a result of climate change. Meanwhile, native species are faring better.

Ivan Soltesz and colleagues find that release of the brain’s equivalent of THC, marijuana’s active component, reduces seizure activity but leads to post-seizure oxygen deprivation in the brain

Researchers from Wu Tsai Neuro and Stanford HAI settle a seemingly intractable historical debate in neuroscience — opening a world of possibilities for using AI to study the brain.

A dramatic shift in brain activity may act as a neural “conductor” to orchestrate the precise timing of skilled movements, according to research by Mark Schnitzer’s group at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.

Children who learned techniques such as deep breathing and yoga slept longer and better, according to a study by Wu Tsai Neuro members Ruth O'Hara, Victor Carrion and colleagues.

In a new study, published July 1 in Cell, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute member Shaul Druckmann, PhD, and collaborator Nuo Li, PhD, at Baylor College of Medicine, provide new insight into what is happening in the brain to determine whether we succeed or fail in these short-term memory tasks, and why some people (or in the study’s case, mice) may be more forgetful than others.

A detailed molecular analysis of tissue from the brains of individuals who died of COVID-19 by Tony Wyss-Coray and colleagues reveals extensive signs of inflammation and neurodegeneration, but no sign of the virus that causes the disease.

Stanford bioengineer and neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, is a pioneer in developing game-changing technologies that enable scientists to probe the brain's circuitry in a methodical search for the roots of behavior.