Featured News Image Awards and honors | Mar 10 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Brain imaging and stimulation technologies receive 2025 Neuroscience:Translate a... Three teams developing promising neurotechnologies with the potential for tremendous impact on human well-being have been named recipients of the 2025 Neuroscience:Translate awards from the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford. Image Podcast episodes | Mar 6 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Does good sleep insulate the brain against Alzheimer's? This week on the podcast, Stanford psychiatry professor Erin Gibson joins us again to share the latest findings on sleep, myelin, and neurodegenerative disease. Image Awards and honors | Feb 19 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Meet the 2025 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars How does the brain wire itself for learning? What molecular mechanisms protect neural circuits during aging? 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Image Awards and honors | Mar 10 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Brain imaging and stimulation technologies receive 2025 Neuroscience:Translate a... Three teams developing promising neurotechnologies with the potential for tremendous impact on human well-being have been named recipients of the 2025 Neuroscience:Translate awards from the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford.
Image Podcast episodes | Mar 6 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Does good sleep insulate the brain against Alzheimer's? This week on the podcast, Stanford psychiatry professor Erin Gibson joins us again to share the latest findings on sleep, myelin, and neurodegenerative disease.
Image Awards and honors | Feb 19 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Meet the 2025 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars How does the brain wire itself for learning? What molecular mechanisms protect neural circuits during aging? These are just some of the research projects by the 2025 Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars.
Image Awards and honors | Feb 3 2025 Vilcek Foundation Transparency in Science: Guosong Hong Transforms Deep-Tissue Imaging Wu Tsai Neuro Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong has been awarded a 2025 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
Image Press coverage | Oct 25 2024 WIRED A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People Science Corporation's retinal implant, built on the research of faculty affiliate Daniel Palanker, has allowed some people who lost their central vision to r
Image Press coverage | Mar 18 2024 Huberman Lab Dr. E.J. Chichilnisky: How the Brain Works, Curing Blindness & How to Navigate a... In this interview on the Huberman Lab podcast, Institute affiliate E.J. Chichilnisky discusses how studying the retina informs our understanding of the brain, the development of artificial retinas for treating incurable blindness, and his own personal journey.
Image Press coverage | Mar 10 2024 New York Times A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive A.I. models developed by members of Wu Tsai Neuro's Neuro-Omics Initiative are making surprising biological discoveries.
Image Press coverage | Feb 21 2024 Wired Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Is Working. Elon Musk’s Transparency Isn’t Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Paul Nuyujukian shares his expertise on brain-computer interfaces amid Neuralink's first human brain implant.
Image Press coverage | Jan 30 2024 NBC Bay Area Fact or fiction? First brain chip could be implanted in a human patient NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Wu Tsai Neuro Institute Scholar Paul Nuyujukian for insight on the first brain chip in a human patient.
Image Press coverage | Jan 30 2024 CNN Health What to know about human brain implants Institute Scholar Paul Nuyujukian contributes to the discussion of Neuralink implanting a brain chip into a human.
Image Press coverage | Jan 30 2024 NBC News Elon Musk startup says it successfully implanted a chip in a human brain In a live interview, Wu Tsai Neuro Institute Scholar Paul Nuyujukian tells NBC News how Neuralink technology works and the future of brain-computer interfaces.
Image Press coverage | Aug 25 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute How Brain Implants and AI Helped These Women Regain Their Voice Brain-computer interface technology assisted with language learning AI allows paralyzed individuals to speak by reading brain activity and decoding it into speech according to new research co-authored by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Erin Kunz.
Image Press coverage | Aug 23 2023 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Brain chip helps voiceless patient communicate at 62 words per minute Using brain implants, machine learning and a predictive model, researchers at Stanford Medicine and Wu Tsai Neuro decoded a woman’s attempts to speak at a rate that begins to approach natural conversation.
Image Press coverage | Mar 20 2023 Nature Neuroscience Krishna V. Shenoy (1968–2023) Institute scholar Paul Nuyujukian and Mark Churchland remember the great Krishna Shenoy, who passed away earlier this year.
Image Press coverage | May 28 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute This device may nudge your brain into deep sleep By stretching the length of deep sleep, Tucker’s device aims to boost that overnight wash cycle. Someday soon, he hopes, something like it will be widely used by people to clear their heads — literally.
Image Press coverage | Mar 24 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Neural network finds markers of autism, gender in brain scans A deep-learning method can detect autism’s “fingerprints” on a brain scan and predict a person’s social-communication difficulties, according to a new study by Kaustubh Supkekar and colleagues.
Image Press coverage | Mar 8 2022 WIRED The science behind Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain chip, plans to test this year on human subjects. Wu Tsai Neuro affiliate Paul Nuyujukian discusses what this means for brain implant science?
Image Press coverage | Feb 23 2022 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The Stanford PhD student with a mission to graduate 10,000 Black engineers by 20... MBCT NeuroTech trainee Favour Nerrisse is the Chair of the National Society of Black Engineers.
Image Press coverage | Oct 27 2021 MIT Technology Review Brain implants could be the next computer mouse 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
Image Press coverage | Sep 29 2021 Nature Outlook The rise of the assembloid 3D models of biological tissue that incorporate multiple cell types are the latest tools for understanding human development and disease.