Thirty years after scientists demonstrated how brain implants can help rhesus monkeys move robotic limbs using only their ...
O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...
In her lab at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon, speech-language pathologist Melanie Fried-Oken has seen the development of assistive communication devices and brain-computer ...
Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...
Barcelona-based INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, which offers a graphene-based brain-computer interface (BCI) therapeutics platform, announced a strategic partnership with tech giant Microsoft to advance the ...
Neuropsychiatric disorders, such as depression and ADHD, remain a global health burden, with current treatments often limited by individual variability and insufficient long-term efficacy. In a ...
Shock therapy, better known as Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), sends electricity into the brain to induce seizures in depressed patients who don’t respond to other treatments. In many such cases, ECT ...