Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading ...
"[I’m] thinking about moving my fingers, which I haven't been able to do in nine years...," Brandon Patterson said after the ...
When a rigid silicon electrode is pushed into the brain, the organ treats it like a splinter. Immune cells swarm the foreign ...
It's been a long time since Alice Charton got a good look at a human face. There are plenty of people moving through her world, of course—her husband, her friends, her doctors, her neighbors—but ...
Explore how brain computer interface technology and advanced brain-computer interfaces are transforming digital interaction, ...
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It's been over two decades since researchers first demonstrated that a person could move a computer cursor with their thoughts. That's thanks to brain-computer interfaces (BCIs): surgically implanted ...
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 ...
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 ...
When someone loses the ability to speak because of a neurological condition like ALS, the impact goes far beyond words. It touches every part of daily life, from sharing a joke with family to simply ...
As a part of a study testing out a new type of implanted brain-computer interface (BCI), three rhesus monkeys controlled ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A former tech executive covering AI and XR for Forbes. At CES 2026, LumiMind presented its brand new closed-loop EEG sleep ...