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Brain-Computer Interfaces

The Fast-Moving Neuroprosthetics Frontier

Neuroethics Viewpoint

As neuroprosthetics emerges, privacy and others concerns need to be considered.
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Brain-Computer Interfaces

How Do We Manage Tech That Changes Human Experience?

Report from Neuroscience 2019

Scientists, technologists, and research participants call for a diversity of voices to discuss the ethical implications of new digital and brain-interface research.
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Brain-Computer Interfaces

Rewiring the Brain: Zapping with Precision

Devices that stimulate the nervous system through electric current are now being used to treat depression, movement disorders, and chronic pain. Our author, a Stanford professor and senior scientific research director for Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center in Palo Alto, CA, provides insight on the various strategies now available.
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Brain-Computer Interfaces

Minding the Brain Machines

Neuroethics Viewpoint

Advances in linking brain signals to computers are developing so rapidly that analyses of their ethical implications are straining to keep up. Neuroethics column for Brain in the News.
Brain-Computer Interfaces

Turning Thoughts into Spoken Words

Technology to translate thoughts into speech would help patients who cannot speak regain their ability to communicate. Three studies describe efforts towards such brain-computer interfaces.
Brain-Computer Interfaces

Computer Vision and the Dream of the Cyborg

Two major information-processing systems exist in the world today: brains and computers. Can we merge them, creating the “cyborg” beloved of science fiction writers? For a team at M.I.T., the goal was practical: find a way for a camera hooked to a computer to connect with the visual system to enable people blind from retinal damage to see again.

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