Neuroscience
Research sheds light on why brain implants lose functionality
Researchers have shed light on why brain implants are tricky to engineer and often lose their functionality once surgically placed into brain tissue.
Dec 14, 2023
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Medical research
Brain implants could restore paralyzed patients' arm movements
A paralyzed Swiss man has become the first person to test a new technology that reads his thoughts using AI and then transmits signals through his own nervous system to his arms, hands and fingers in order to restore movement.
Sep 27, 2023
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Neuroscience
Brain signals transformed into speech through implants and AI
Researchers from Radboud University and the UMC Utrecht have succeeded in transforming brain signals into audible speech. By decoding signals from the brain through a combination of implants and AI, they were able to predict ...
Aug 28, 2023
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Neuroscience
New findings show how the brain prepares to make choices during decision-making
Neuroscientists and psychologists have been trying for decades to better understand how humans make decisions, in the hope to devise more effective interventions to promote healthy and beneficial lifestyle choices. Two brain ...
Biomedical technology
From 'magical' to 'rip it out': different brain implant experiences
Ian Burkhart looked down at his hand and imagined closing it. To his amazement, it closed.
Aug 20, 2023
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Biomedical technology
The race to link our brains to computers is hotting up
Brain implants have long been trapped in the realm of science fiction, but a steady trickle of medical trials suggests the tiny devices could play a big part in humanity's future.
Aug 20, 2023
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Biomedical technology
ALS patient pioneering brain-computer connection
As a rare form of Lou Gehrig's disease paralyzes his body, Rodney Gorham hopes a pioneering link between his brain and a computer will help others after he is gone.
Aug 20, 2023
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Neuroscience
For the first time researchers restore feeling and lasting movement in man living with quadriplegia
In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, bioelectronic medicine researchers, engineers and surgeons at Northwell Health's The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have successfully implanted microchips into the brain of ...
Aug 1, 2023
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Neuroscience
AI-supercharged neurotech threatens mental privacy: UNESCO
The combination of "warp speed" advances in neurotechnology, such as brain implants or scans that can increasingly peek inside minds, and artificial intelligence poses a threat to mental privacy, UNESCO warned on Thursday.
Jul 13, 2023
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Neuroscience
Chronic pain can be objectively measured using brain signals—new research
Using a brain implant that can record neural signals over many months, my research team and I have discovered objective biomarkers of chronic pain severity in four patients with chronic pain as they went about their daily ...
May 27, 2023
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