Light is quietly becoming the new language of brain technology. Instead of thick wires and skull-penetrating electrodes, a ...

A U.S. Army soldier is participating in a clinical trial at Walter Reed testing a neural-enabled prosthetic limb designed to ...

A surgery developed at MIT, called agonist-antagonist myoneural interface (AMI), connects muscle remnants from the shin and the calf to allow near-natural movement for those using an advanced ...

Loss of communication is not uncommon in patients suffering from debilitating neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and clinical locked-in syndromes. One solution to restore communication involves ...

AUSTIN, Texas, April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Phantom Neuro, the neurotech company advancing human-machine interfaces, today announced an oversubscribed $19 million Series A funding round led by ...

Dr. Hugh Herr, a professor at MIT and senior author of the study, explained the significance: "This is the first prosthetic study in history that shows a leg prosthesis under full neural modulation, ...

Many people around the world, especially those with neurodegenerative diseases, have lost the ability to communicate effectively. A developing technique—leveraging a brain-computer interface (BCI) and ...

— -- In an advance scientists hope will one day benefit humans, new research has found that monkeys with electronic implants connected to single brain cells can learn to flex paralyzed muscles.

(a) A complete image of the flexible probe. (b) Detail of the probe tip shown in the black rectangle of image a. (c) Schematic diagram of the probe structure. Epilepsy is one of the most common ...

These congregants from more than 20 disciplines--including materials scientists, neurologists, histopathologists, electrochemists, neurophysiologists, orthopedic surgeons, urologists, ...