Researchers at EPFL show that fewer than 20 training trials with real-time success/failure feedback can significantly improve how people control prostheses, rehabilitation devices, and other motor interfaces.
Learn MoreEPFL and CHUV researchers have developed the first AI-assisted, real-time deep-brain stimulation therapy for walking impairments in Parkinson’s disease.
Learn MoreAuthors : Nik Papageorgiou
An EPFL-led study shows that individual brain connectivity patterns, unique to each person, can identify Parkinson’s patients with hallucinations and reveal early signs linked to cognitive vulnerability.
Authors : Stephanie Parker
EPFL researchers are developing AI models that could one day enable vision prosthetics able to restore meaningful, object-level sight for the blind.
Authors : Fondation Leenaards/Mediacom
The EPFL professor is collaborating on one of the two winning projects, which aims to restore cognitive functions through electrical stimulation without surgery.
Authors : Tanya Petersen
For the first time researchers have used an advanced AI model that understands both images and language allowing them to model dyslexia, paving the way for potential new treatments.
Authors : Queen Elisabeth Prize communication
Neural interfaces are the winners of the 2026 Queen Elisabeth Prize for Engineering. Nine scientists are honoured, including Jocelyne Bloch and Grégoire Courtine, from EPFL and UNIL/CHUV, recognised for their development of electronic spinal stimulation technology, which reactivates neural circuits controlling locomotion.
Authors : Cécilia Carron
A team of scientists from EPFL and Alaska Pacific University has developed an AI program that can recognize individual bears in the wild, despite the substantial changes that occur in their appearance over the summer season. This breakthrough holds significant promise for research, management, and conservation efforts.
Authors : Niels Lion
Professor Eduardo Martin Moraud, currently Assistant Professor at the University of Lausanne and the Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV), as been appointed as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the Neuro-X Institute.
Nako Nakatsuka, head of the Laboratory of Chemical Nanotechnology in the School of Engineering, has been selected by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurch (ETH Zurich) to receive the prestigious Ruzicka Prize 2025.
Authors : Michael Mitchell
Most patients with a spinal cord injury suffer from debilitating pressure drops or dangerous pressure peaks. In a series of breakthroughs published simultaneously in Nature and Nature Medicine, neuroscientists and neurosurgeons from Switzerland, the Netherlands and Canada introduce a groundbreaking neurotechnological solution.
Authors : Anne-Muriel Brouet, Emmanuel Barraud
We spoke with Prof. Stéphanie P. Lacour, a global expert in soft implants, about her research. Lacour is EPFL’s Vice President for Support to Strategic Initiatives and head of the Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces.
