Neuroscience News

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.

Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed a lightweight, comfortable knit sleeve that uses pressure-based haptics to simulate touch, opening up new

Academic leaders debated the future of the intersecting study of natural and artificial intelligence at Wu Tsai Neuro’s Annual Symposium

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

Alice Ting and colleagues have built a new synthetic receptor with  broad potential to program cell activity, including immune response and neurological

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.

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.

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

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-

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.

This week, we talk with Zhenan Bao about reverse engineering the remarkable properties of human skin to design new wearable devices for neuroscience.

To advance neuroscience research using EEG and TMS technologies, the Koret Human Neurosciences Community Lab has awarded its inaugural Human Neuroscience Pilot Grants to ten innovative research projects.

Why do our brains get worse at learning as we get older, and what can we do about it? Institute affiliate Carla Shatz discusses our brain's capacity for change on this podcast episode.

A research team at Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute has made a major stride in using AI to replicate how the brain organizes sensory information to make sense of the world, opening up new frontiers for virtual neuroscience.

This week, we talk with Surya Ganguli about the neuroscience of AI, and how advances in artificial intelligence could teach us about our own brains.

By combining advances in display technologies, holographic imaging, and artificial intelligence, Stanford engineers have found a way to display full-color, 3D moving images over a direct view of the real world.