Mental privacy matters.Neurotechnology has moved beyond science fiction - our privacy laws need to keep up.
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺Connect-One: Early feasibility study of #Connexus brain-computer interface clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT073... #Paradromics clinical trial to obtain preliminary device safety information, on voluntary motor control; #BCI #NeuroTech
ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov
The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺Connect-One: Early feasibility study of #Connexus brain-computer interface https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07357428 #Paradromics clinical trial to obtain preliminary device safety information, on voluntary motor control; #BCI #NeuroTech
Why brain implants are more than a sci-fi fantasy https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/12/world/brain-implants-sci-fi-fantasy/ #BCI #NeuroTech
Why brain implants are more than a sci-fi fantasy www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05... by @[email protected] on #BCI #NeuroTech
Why brain implants are more th...
Why brain implants are more th...
Real-time brain-controlled selective hearing enhances speech perception in multi-talker environments www.nature.com/articles/s41... #iEEG #BCI #NeuroTech
Real-time brain-controlled sel...
Real-time brain-controlled sel...
Real-time brain-controlled selective hearing enhances speech perception in multi-talker environments - Nature Neuroscience
This study shows that brain signals can identify and amplify the voice a person wants to hear in a crowded scene. Choudhari et al. provide evidence that brain-controlled hearing can improve speech perception and clarity in noisy environments.
Scientists build 'mind-reading' hearing system for noisy environments https://www.sci.news/medicine/mind-reading-hearing-system-noisy-environments-14757.html "a device that reads brain signals to automatically amplify the voice a listener wants to hear"
Real-time brain-controlled selective hearing enhances speech perception in multi-talker environments https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02281-5 #iEEG #BCI #NeuroTech
Scientists Build ‘Mind-Reading’ Hearing System for Noisy Environments | Sci.News
A team of U.S. researchers has demonstrated, for the first time in human trials, a device that reads brain signals to automatically amplify the voice a listener wants to hear -- a potential lifeline for the 430 million people worldwide with disabling hearing loss.
Invasive BCI development is not (SpaceX) rocket science - it's harder, or at least the problems and solutions may prove more elusive. 🧠🤯 Any #Neuralink R&D positions neuralink.com/careers/ beyond regular engineering? #BCI #NeuroTech
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Reprogramming perception: A neuroplasticity-focused design space for sensory substitution devices dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.... by @[email protected] @[email protected] et al. at #AHs2026; #BCI #NeuroTech
Reprogramming Perception: A Ne...
Reprogramming Perception: A Ne...
(LinkedIn) "The failure we observe in chronic BCI recordings is not purely a materials problem or a surgical problem. It is partly a cellular biology problem. And cellular biology problems have biological solutions." https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tkozai_neuroscience-drugdiscovery-neurotechnology-share-7435399179738300416--t8T #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience
"👨👩👧👦 The field has spent enormous resources making better electrodes. We may also need to make better biological neighborhoods for those electrodes to live in."
#neuroscience #drugdiscovery #neurotechnology #braincomputerinterface #bioengineering | TK Kozai
💊 The Drug That Helped Brain Implants, and What It Taught Us 🩺 A few years ago, my lab asked a simple question: if oligodendrocyte dysfunction is contributing to BCI failure, can we fix it with a drug? We chose Clemastine, an antihistamine that has been shown in other contexts to promote oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination. It is FDA-approved, orally administered, crosses the blood-brain barrier, and has a known safety profile. It targets signaling pathways specific to oligodendrocytes through muscarinic receptors. If you wanted to test the oligodendrocyte hypothesis in a living brain, it was a reasonable tool. 📈 The results were striking. In mice receiving Clemastine starting one week before electrode implantation, myelin levels near the electrode were roughly 180% of controls. Chronic recording stability improved by approximately 140%. Critically, inhibitory neuronal activity, the first thing to degrade in our recordings without intervention, was substantially better preserved. 🧫 Demonstrating that a drug targeting oligodendrocytes improves chronic BCI recording requires a living brain, a functioning immune system, intact vasculature, and months of electrophysiology, conditions no current non-animal model (NAMs) can provide. ⚠️ I want to be careful about how I frame this. Clemastine is not a BCI treatment. These are rodent experiments, and translation from rodent to human is never guaranteed. The appropriate response to these findings is not to start taking Clemastine before a BCI surgery. It is to take the oligodendrocyte hypothesis seriously as a target, fund research to understand the mechanism more deeply, and explore whether this or related compounds have a role in improving device longevity in humans. 🔎 But the experiment taught us something beyond the drug effect. The fact that a pharmacological intervention targeting a non-neuronal cell type, not neurons, not the electrode surface, not the biomaterial coating, could meaningfully change recording performance is itself important. It tells us that the failure we observe in chronic BCI recordings is not purely a materials problem or a surgical problem. It is partly a cellular biology problem. And cellular biology problems have biological solutions. 👨👩👧👦 The field has spent enormous resources making better electrodes. We may also need to make better biological neighborhoods for those electrodes to live in. Clemastine: https://lnkd.in/eyNPriA9 Fus in Oligo: https://lnkd.in/eFErQ2i9 #Neuroscience #DrugDiscovery #Neurotechnology #BrainComputerInterface #Bioengineering