Neuroscience News

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.

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.

A.I. models developed by members of Wu Tsai Neuro's Neuro-Omics Initiative are making surprising biological discoveries.

Wu Tsai Neuro faculty scholar Paul Nuyujukian shares his expertise on brain-computer interfaces amid Neuralink's first human brain implant.

For those with stroke, involuntary contractions of the hands and arms often follow. A simple, wearable vibrating glove developed by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Allison Okamura, Caitlin Seim and others, may offer a more effective treatment.

Learn about the experience of several participants in the BrainGate brain-computer interface clinical trial, and the large team effort by Wu Tsai Neuro affiliates Jaimie Henderson, Paul Nuyujukian, and the late Krishna Shenoy over the past decade to get n

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.