When a person loses a limb, a prosthesis often can help restore a significant degree of mobility. But when movement or communication is impaired by a neurological condition such as amyotrophic lateral ...

The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that ...

It is important to note that many of these technologies are still in early stages of development or clinical testing – they are not yet standard treatments, and what works for one person may not work ...

The clearance enables ABILITY Neurotech to move beyond intra-operative testing to long-term clinical investigation involving human participants.

ALS causes progressive muscle weakness, leading to loss of independent speech and communication. A clinical trial in the Netherlands will test a brain implant to restore communication for ALS patients ...

The human brain is remarkably complex, with trillions of connections that control how you move, think and feel. Yet it’s still vulnerable to debilitating conditions such as paralysis, stroke, epilepsy ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ELBERT — To say Brandon Patterson’s father wasn’t fully on board when he first brought up the idea of having electrodes implanted into his brain would be an ...

Sitting in the courtyard of his house in China’s Henan province last October, Dong Hui decided to try holding a pen. Six ...

Funding will advance minimally invasive brain interface platform already tested in 10 patients and accelerate development of a cortical foundation model for next-generation BCIs. Neurosoft ...

Chinese companies are racing to develop and deploy artificial-intelligence powered brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) that can help people to move, speak and control devices. BCIs, which link a person’s ...

High-performance microsystem technologies that can establish robust optical/electrical interfaces with implantable devices represent powerful tools in neuroscience research and clinical utility of ...