Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

Abstract: This letter presents the design and experimental evaluation of a magnetic-resonant wireless power transfer (WPT) system for brain implants. A circuit-based model is proposed to predict the ...

Elon Musk, Sam Altman and a growing number of rivals are all fighting to become the leading player in the nescient but potentially lucrative market for brain implants. Morgan Stanley analysts estimate ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have taken another page right out of a science fiction novel. This time, by designing and building microscopic, ...

A breakthrough brain implant helps a stroke survivor communicate again by translating neural signals into spoken words. The report explains how the system works the results seen so far and what this ...

Illustration of the mAxialtrode, showing how it combines light, electrical signals, and medication in a single needle-thin tube that can be used to control and measure brain activity in different ...

A tech startup in Russia claims to have developed brain implants that it’s using to control pigeons remotely and turn the birds into surveillance drones. Pigeons have a long history of being used as ...

Scientists at Keck Medicine of USC are testing an experimental stem cell therapy that aims to restore the brain’s ability to produce dopamine, the chemical whose loss drives Parkinson’s disease. The ...

A new type of brain implant may have implications for both brain research and future treatments of neurological diseases such as epilepsy. Researchers from DTU, the University of Copenhagen, ...

A new type of brain implant may have implications for both brain research and future treatments of neurological diseases such as epilepsy. Researchers from DTU, the University of Copenhagen, ...

Illustration of the mAxialtrode, showing how it combines light, electrical signals, and medication in a single needle-thin tube that can be used to control and measure brain activity in different ...