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At its core, the Wu Tsai Neurosciences institute strives to harness the full collective intellectual power of Stanford to solve some of the most challenging questions in science: the nature of the three pounds of tissue that produces our experiences, memo

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute benefactor Clara Wu Tsai, a businesswoman, investor and philanthropist, will begin a five-year term on Dec. 1.

Dancing droplets of food coloring housed in hand-drawn lattices could reveal the inner-workings of advanced materials and complex natural systems.

A Stanford AI team creates benchmarks for 100 everyday household tasks for robot assistants, creating a path for more useful agents.

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 12-by-20-foot room at a skilled-nursing facility in Menlo Park, California, researchers are testing the next evolution of the computer interface inside the soft matter of Dennis DeGray’s motor cortex. DeGray is paralyzed from the neck down. He

Activating serotonin receptors in the medial septum, a region along the brain’s midline, reverses social-memory deficits in a mouse model of autism, according to new research by the group of Robert Malenka at Wu Tsai Neuro. The results reveal a new mechan

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.

Stanford’s Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program recognizes faculty for extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education. Provost Persis Drell announced the eight faculty members — including three Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates — who

Wu Tsai Neuro and the Center for Mind Brain Computation and Technology (MBCT) are pleased to welcome our new cohorts of NeuroTech trainees and MBCT student members.

Wu Tsai Neuro faculty affiliate Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, was one of four Stanford Medicine faculty members elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

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.

The Fall 2021 issue of Stanford Medicine magazine explores new discoveries about the brain and nervous system and how these findings are leading to remarkable advances in neurological care.

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

Dr. David Spiegel and colleagues showed decades ago that women whose depression was easing lived longer than those whose depression was getting worse. His research and other studies have clearly shown that “the brain is intimately connected to the body an

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.

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

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

LSD and psilocybin increasingly show promise as mental health treatments. Now universities and companies are exploring their use in pain management

3D models of biological tissue that incorporate multiple cell types are the latest tools for understanding human development and disease.