Tag Archives: Brain implants

If you are interesting in an overview on what is going on in the area of brain computer interfaces and the issues this evolving technology is raising take a look at this article on Nature. I already wrote quite a bit in this area and you can take a look …

Neuralink has been working on connecting the brain to a computer for some years now. It has made a number of announcements over the past two years demonstrating the workability of their ideas and prototypes on animals (to take a look at their technology watch the clip). Now they are …

A trial conducted by the University of Minnesota Medical School jointly with the Massachusetts General Hospital has shown that electrical stimulation of the brain controlled by an application that is able to learn the effects of the stimulation can lead to measurable improvement in cognitive capability. The trial involved 12 …

A team of researchers from Brown, Baylor University, University of California at San Diego and Qualcomm has been working in the past four years on a new approach to interface with the brain. So far BCIs make use of electrodes (implanted, or positioned inside/outside the skull) that can sense electrical …

We have been used to high claims from Elon Musk, so high that seem impossible. Quite a bit of them, indeed, requires a reality check and need to be taken with much more than a grain of salt. However, we have also seen that, may be with some downgrading and …

2. Extending the brain area where signals are captured Although we like to identify specific areas of the brain and associate them to specific function, like speech, hearing, reasoning, emotion, the brain structure is massively diffused. Yes there can be a prevalent area where a specific function is processed (emerge) …

In an article that has been published on Nature Communications, a team of Facebook researchers working on Brain Computer Interfaces has reported on results achieved in decoding brain signals leading to the identification of spoken words. Patients being prepared for epilepsy surgery had several electrode implanted on the cortex. The …

Science fiction is about to be superseded by science. Have you ever dreamt of downloading a book content in your brain (particularly a book you had to study at school) saving you the time of reading? I bet you did. Now, we are not there yet, but what seemed to …

Drugs and Noortropics Augmentation of humans has been achieved in the last 100 years and accelerating in the last decades, through the use of drugs. Antibiotics have changed the outcome of bacterial diseases and have significantly extended life expectancy. Purification of water has been probably the most significant factor in …

Neurotechnologies The promise of a full understanding of the brain working made by projects like The Human Brain (EU)  and The Brain Initiative can potentially open the way to an augmentation of the brain processing and storage capabilities through the implant of chips that can improve memory and processing. In …