Neuroscience News

A new study by Tony Wyss-Coray and colleagues shows it’s possible to transfer the brain benefits enjoyed by marathon-running mice to their couch-potato peers.

The drumbeat of exercise’s brain benefits may sound familiar. Most of us know that getting our move on can mean a boost to mental and neurological health. But what if, through understanding these biochemical processes, we could get all of that brain gain

Scientists who injected idle mice with blood from athletic mice found improvements in learning and memory. The findings could have implications for Alzheimer’s research and beyond.

Stanford University engineers Mark Cutkosky, a Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute faculty affiliate, and David Lentink – now at University of Groningen in the Netherlands – have developed a perching robot that can fly around, catch and carry objects and perc

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.

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.

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 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.