Featured News Image Knight Initiative news | May 12 2026 Stanford Report Gift advances research into brain resilience and aging A $90 million gift from Penny and Phil Knight will extend the work of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Image Research news | May 12 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience In pursuit of brain resilience In this research roundup, we look back on some of the ways Knight Initiative scientists have been pursuing ways to keep our minds sharp well into old age Image Researcher profiles | Apr 27 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Could neuroscience help explain miscarriage? Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage spike after age 35. Wu Tsai Neuro postdoc Blake Laham suspects neural signaling in the uterus is partly to blame Image Researcher profiles | Apr 2 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: ‘To see is to believe’ Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong says that light plays a key role in neuroscience and—and that’s why he’s working with a Big Ideas in Neuroscience team to make transparent brains Displaying 33 - 48 news posts of 164 Filter Sort by Newest to oldest Oldest to newest News Type Wu Tsai Neuro News Knight Initiative news Director's messages Research news Researcher profiles News Features Awards and honors Podcast episodes Press coverage Publications Research Theme NeuroEngineering NeuroHealth NeuroDiscovery Image Podcast episodes | Apr 17 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute What ChatGPT understands: Large language models and the neuroscience of meaning In which Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams explores how AI chatbots can model the human brain's language abilities. Image Research news | Apr 9 2025 Stanford Medicine AI models of the brain could serve as "digital twins" in research In a new study, researchers created an AI model of the mouse visual cortex that predicts neuronal responses to visual images. Image Research news | Apr 9 2025 Stanford Medicine Re-creating neural pathway in dish may speed pain treatment Researchers with the Wu Tsai Neuro–funded Stanford Brain Organogenesis project have rebuilt, in laboratory glassware, the neural pathway that sends information from the body’s periphery to the brain. Image Researcher profiles | Mar 20 2025 Stanford Medicine - Scope Digital tool gives kids with ADHD real-time feedback on their brains In a recent study of a technique to help kids with ADHD strengthen their working memory, about half of participants showed improvements in their symptoms. Image Podcast episodes | Mar 20 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stimulating the brain with sound This week on the podcast, Stanford radiology faculty Kim Butts Pauly and Raag Airan help us dive deep into the brain with focused ultrasound Image Research news | Feb 7 2025 Stanford Engineering – The Future of Everything The future of transparent tissue Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Guosong Hong explains how he and colleagues have used a dye commonly found in nacho chips to make living tissue transparent. Image News Features | Jan 24 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Non-invasive brain stimulation opens new ways to study and treat the brain A new generation of researchers at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is developing tools to modify brain activity for research and clinical applications—without drilling through the skull. Image Research news | Dec 18 2024 Stanford Engineering New knit haptic sleeve simulates realistic touch Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed a lightweight, comfortable knit sleeve that uses pressure-based haptics to simulate touch, opening up new Image News Features | Dec 16 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The co-evolution of neuroscience and AI Academic leaders debated the future of the intersecting study of natural and artificial intelligence at Wu Tsai Neuro’s Annual Symposium Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Dec 13 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute 2024 neuroscience research in review Join us as we look back on some of the key studies we covered here at Wu Tsai Neuro in 2024 to give a (very partial) overview of the impact of our community’s research efforts this past year Image Research news | Dec 5 2024 Stanford Report Tool that enhances control of cellular activity could expand biological and medi... Alice Ting and colleagues have built a new synthetic receptor with broad potential to program cell activity, including immune response and neurological Image Researcher profiles | Nov 18 2024 HAI From brain to machine: The unexpected journey of neural networks How early cognitive research funded by the NSF paved the way for today’s AI breakthroughs—and how AI is now inspiring new understandings of the human mind. Image Research news | Oct 29 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute New voltage indicator enables ultra-sensitive synaptic imaging Bioengineers and neuroscientists at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University have developed a highly sensitive tool for detecting brain cells’ subtlest electrical signals. 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 Awards and honors | Sep 30 2024 Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences Jay McClelland receives 2024 Golden Goose Award Work on human cognition by the founding director of the Wu Tsai Neuro Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology was foundational for neural-network- Image Research news | Sep 5 2024 Stanford Report Researchers make mouse skin transparent using a common food dye Researchers were able to see through a living mouse’s skin to its internal organs, supported in part by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, simply by applying common light-absorbing molecules. Pagination First page Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page Last page
Image Knight Initiative news | May 12 2026 Stanford Report Gift advances research into brain resilience and aging A $90 million gift from Penny and Phil Knight will extend the work of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Image Research news | May 12 2026 Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience In pursuit of brain resilience In this research roundup, we look back on some of the ways Knight Initiative scientists have been pursuing ways to keep our minds sharp well into old age
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 27 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: Could neuroscience help explain miscarriage? Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage spike after age 35. Wu Tsai Neuro postdoc Blake Laham suspects neural signaling in the uterus is partly to blame
Image Researcher profiles | Apr 2 2026 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Q&A: ‘To see is to believe’ Faculty Scholar Guosong Hong says that light plays a key role in neuroscience and—and that’s why he’s working with a Big Ideas in Neuroscience team to make transparent brains
Image Podcast episodes | Apr 17 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute What ChatGPT understands: Large language models and the neuroscience of meaning In which Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams explores how AI chatbots can model the human brain's language abilities.
Image Research news | Apr 9 2025 Stanford Medicine AI models of the brain could serve as "digital twins" in research In a new study, researchers created an AI model of the mouse visual cortex that predicts neuronal responses to visual images.
Image Research news | Apr 9 2025 Stanford Medicine Re-creating neural pathway in dish may speed pain treatment Researchers with the Wu Tsai Neuro–funded Stanford Brain Organogenesis project have rebuilt, in laboratory glassware, the neural pathway that sends information from the body’s periphery to the brain.
Image Researcher profiles | Mar 20 2025 Stanford Medicine - Scope Digital tool gives kids with ADHD real-time feedback on their brains In a recent study of a technique to help kids with ADHD strengthen their working memory, about half of participants showed improvements in their symptoms.
Image Podcast episodes | Mar 20 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Stimulating the brain with sound This week on the podcast, Stanford radiology faculty Kim Butts Pauly and Raag Airan help us dive deep into the brain with focused ultrasound
Image Research news | Feb 7 2025 Stanford Engineering – The Future of Everything The future of transparent tissue Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Guosong Hong explains how he and colleagues have used a dye commonly found in nacho chips to make living tissue transparent.
Image News Features | Jan 24 2025 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Non-invasive brain stimulation opens new ways to study and treat the brain A new generation of researchers at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is developing tools to modify brain activity for research and clinical applications—without drilling through the skull.
Image Research news | Dec 18 2024 Stanford Engineering New knit haptic sleeve simulates realistic touch Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed a lightweight, comfortable knit sleeve that uses pressure-based haptics to simulate touch, opening up new
Image News Features | Dec 16 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute The co-evolution of neuroscience and AI Academic leaders debated the future of the intersecting study of natural and artificial intelligence at Wu Tsai Neuro’s Annual Symposium
Image Wu Tsai Neuro News | Dec 13 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute 2024 neuroscience research in review Join us as we look back on some of the key studies we covered here at Wu Tsai Neuro in 2024 to give a (very partial) overview of the impact of our community’s research efforts this past year
Image Research news | Dec 5 2024 Stanford Report Tool that enhances control of cellular activity could expand biological and medi... Alice Ting and colleagues have built a new synthetic receptor with broad potential to program cell activity, including immune response and neurological
Image Researcher profiles | Nov 18 2024 HAI From brain to machine: The unexpected journey of neural networks How early cognitive research funded by the NSF paved the way for today’s AI breakthroughs—and how AI is now inspiring new understandings of the human mind.
Image Research news | Oct 29 2024 Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute New voltage indicator enables ultra-sensitive synaptic imaging Bioengineers and neuroscientists at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University have developed a highly sensitive tool for detecting brain cells’ subtlest electrical signals.
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 Awards and honors | Sep 30 2024 Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences Jay McClelland receives 2024 Golden Goose Award Work on human cognition by the founding director of the Wu Tsai Neuro Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology was foundational for neural-network-
Image Research news | Sep 5 2024 Stanford Report Researchers make mouse skin transparent using a common food dye Researchers were able to see through a living mouse’s skin to its internal organs, supported in part by the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, simply by applying common light-absorbing molecules.
