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Brain-Machine Interfaces

Wearable Brain Devices: Buyer Beware

Tech firms are marketing brain recording and stimulating devices directly to consumers without any government supervision. Are they explaining the risks as well as potential benefits?
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Brain-Machine Interfaces

Minding the Brain Machines

Neuroethics Viewpoint

Advances in linking brain signals to computers are developing so rapidly that analyses of their ethical implications are straining to keep up. Neuroethics column for Brain in the News.
Brain-Machine Interfaces

Mind Over Matter: Cognitive Neuroengineering

Brain-machine interface—once the stuff of science fiction novels—is coming to a computer near you. The question is: How soon?
Brain-Machine Interfaces

How Brain-Machine Interfaces Engage Neural Plasticity

The brain adapts as it interacts with prosthetics driven by thought, which in turn may mean prosthetics need to adapt as well.
Brain-Machine Interfaces

Brain-to-Brain Interfaces: When Reality Meets Science Fiction

Every memory that we have, act that we perform, and feeling that we experience creates brainstorms—interactions of millions of cells that produce electrical signals. Neuroscientists are now able to record those signals, extract the kind of motor commands that the brain is about to produce, and communicate the commands to machines that can understand them and facilitate movement in the human body. Research in this area has the potential to help paraplegics and others suffering from spinal-cord injuries to control machines with their thoughts and to bolster their ability to get around.

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