Paradromics and Neuralink are leading the race in developing advanced brain implants. Reports highlight differences in ...

As a part of a study testing out a new type of implanted brain-computer interface (BCI), three rhesus monkeys controlled movements in a virtual reality (VR) world using only brain signals. The study, ...

Restoring both walking and sensation to patients with paraplegia is an ambitious goal—but a team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and ...

"[I’m] thinking about moving my fingers, which I haven't been able to do in nine years...," Brandon Patterson said after the surgery Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading edge of science. Patterson, 41, had a brain-computer interface implanted in ...

Brain computer interface technology is rapidly advancing, allowing neural signals to translate into digital commands. Experiments like Neuralink Synchron trials demonstrate thought-controlled cursors, ...

The Implantable Brain Computer Interface technology industry must work alongside policy makers to expeditiously establish a sustainable pathway for coverage and access for the patients who need the ...

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. A brain implant could help people type — ...

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 ...

For people with near-total paralysis, the ability to communicate easily in real time is a challenge. For years, scientists have been working to remedy that by developing devices that can decode brain ...

China’s medical regulator has granted a world-first commercial green light to a brain-computer interface, with a system designed to help restore some hand movement to people with spinal cord injuries.