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Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute advances its ambitious “Big Ideas” Initiatives to the next level

Stanford has awarded the Stanford Alumni Association (SAA) Outstanding Achievement Award to three graduating seniors, including MARÍA VALENTINA SUÁREZ-NIETO, one of Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute's inaugural NeURO fellows and part of the SUNS leadership t

Light triggers formation, feeds growth of optic nerve tumors

Researchers created an algorithm to identify similar cell types from species – including fish, mice, flatworms and sponges – that have diverged for hundreds of millions of years, which could help fill in gaps in our understanding of evolution.

An autism-linked mutation could make the brain grow unusually big by prompting cells to express a “don’t eat me” signal, according to a new study.

Paul Nuyujukian discusses Neuralink's recent "MindPong" video" and the latest in BCI technology with Ira Flatow on Science Friday

A man paralyzed from the neck down for almost a decade has used his mind to compose whole sentences in real-time, according to a new study.

Neuroplasticity, or the brain's ability to remodel itself, enables us to interpret all kinds of sensations. We can use that to create new ways to perceive the world, says neuroscientist David Eagleman

A man who was paralysed from the neck down in an accident more than a decade ago has written sentences using a computer system that turns imagined handwriting into words.

Electrodes in a paralyzed man’s brain turned his imagined handwriting into words typed on a screen. The translation from brain to text may ultimately point to ways to help people with disabilities like paralysis communicate using just their thoughts.

Scientists have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) designed to restore the ability to communicate in people with spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Artificial intelligence, interpreting data from a device placed at the brain’s surface, enables people who are paralyzed or have severely impaired limb movement to communicate by text.

A man who is paralyzed was able to type with 95% accuracy by imagining that he was handwriting letters on a sheet of paper, a team reported in the journal Nature.

Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, can restore movement in people with paralysis and may help treat neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Multitasking might seem like a clever way to get a grip on an out-of-control to-do list, but research shows that’s not such a great plan.

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute members recently received top honors from two of America’s leading scientific academies. Four faculty affiliates of the Institute were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and three were elected to the Natio