News Articles Covering Our Work

"Scientists are using new technology to study the cells behind language comprehension"

NPR, December 22, 2023.


"How Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Restore Speech and Help Fight Depression"

Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2022.


"The Man Who Controls Computers With His Mind"

New York Times, May 12, 2022.


"The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch"

Nature, April 20, 2022.


"A ‘Pacemaker for the Brain’: No Treatment Helped Her Depression — Until This"

New York Times, October 4, 2021.


"Tapping Into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak"

New York Times, July 14, 2021.


"The Brain Implants That Could Change Humanity"

New York Times, August 28, 2020.


"Listening to the Brain"

deeplearning.ai, May 13, 2020.


"The Loudness of Vowels Helps the Brain Break Down Speech Into Syl-La-Bles"

NPR, November 20, 2019.


"Scientists Create Speech from Brain Signals"

New York Times, April 24, 2019.


"Researchers Uncover a Circuit for Sadness in the Human Brain"

NPR, November 8, 2018.


"Brain Data Could Read Moods, Potentially Treat Depression"

Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2018.


"How the Brain Helps you Sing or Say What You Mean"

NPR, July 27, 2018.


"One Sentence With 7 Meanings Unlocks a Mystery of Human Speech"

Wired, June 28, 2018.


"Really? Really. How Our Brains Figure Out What Words Mean Based On How They're Said"

NPR, Aug 24, 2017.


"The clever way your brain filters out background noise"

[BBC World Service Newsday]

BBC Newsday, December 20, 2016.


"The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain -- and Almost Lost His Mind"

Wired, January 26, 2016.


"Illuminating Depression’s Circuitry"

UCSF Magazine, Fall, 2015.


"The Pentagon’s gamble on brain implants, bionic limbs and combat exoskeletons "

Nature, June 10, 2015.


"Probing Brain Depth, Trying to Aid Memory"

New York Times, July 9, 2014.


"A Speech Synthesizer Direct to the Brain"

MIT Technology Review, July 9, 2014.


"Brain-Machine Interface Could Give Voice to the Voiceless"

Discover, April 20, 2014.

"UCSF Study shows how the brain sorts sound to make language"

SF Chronicle, January 30, 2014.

"Infant Sleep Machines at Maximum Volume Reported as Hearing Risk"

New York Times, March 3, 2014.

"Sense in sounds"

Economist, Jan 31, 2014.

"Researchers watch as our brains turn sounds into words"

NPR, Jan 30, 2014.

"Scientists map what your brain looks like on English"

Time Magazine, Jan 30, 2014.


"Epilepsy patients help decode the brain’s hidden signals"

NPR/KQED, Dec 9, 2013.


"Obama invests in brain-mapping project"

NPR/KQED Forum, April 2, 2013.


"Connecting the Neural Dots"

New York Times, February 25,2013.


"Watching how the brain speaks"

Time Magazine, February 22, 2013.


"Selective cortical representation of attended speaker in multi-talker speech perception"

Nature, May 10, 2012.
Covered internationally: NPR-KQED, WSJ, ABC News, BBC, SF Chronicle, Times of London, Nature Podcasts, LA Times, Science News, New Scientist.


"What cocktail parties teach us: The brain is wired to focus on just one thing"

Wall Street Journal, April 23, 2012.


"Thinking makes it go"

San Francisco Magazine, January 17, 2012.

Thinking makes it go. It’s the stuff of science fiction: a marriage of brain and computer that allows the disabled to walk, the mute to speak, and all of us to control our reality with our thoughts alone. A Wi-Fi implant in the brain? If anyone’s going to deliver, it’s the visionary scientists at the Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses, the Bay Area’s bold new research hub.


"UCSF Neurosurgeon works to develop next generation brain implant for paralyzed patients"

NBC Bay Area News, December 29, 2011.


"Computers implanted in brain could help paralyzed. Front page article covers CNEP research achievements and aims. "

San Francisco Chronicle, December 27, 2011.


"Peering inside three brains- Take a ringside seat at the UCSF Medical Center"

U.S. News and World Report, Best Hospitals 2012 Edition

On the front lines: Peering inside three brains- Take a ringside seat at the UCSF Medical Center. Pages 36-41. Article devoted to a three surgeries at UCSF, two of which are epilepsy surgeries operated by Dr Chang. (Reprinted in separate USNWR special issue: Secrets of Your Brain)