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New research shows that what we call the human brain is actually two ancient, independent nervous systems assembled side by side over hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary history.
“We’ve shown for the first time that the front of the brain arises from a totally different progenitor cell than the back of the brain,”
said Kyle Loh, Ph.D., associate professor of developmental biology at Stanford Medicine and senior author of the study.
“Our discovery means that we can …

The Brain Is Two Separate Organs Joined by Evolution - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

What if the brain doesn't create consciousness? Christof Koch proposes it might be the fabric of reality itself https://www.sciencealert.com/what-if-the-brain-doesnt-create-consciousness-scientist-proposes-i…

What if The Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness? Scientist Proposes It Might Be The Fabric of Reality Itself
For decades, neuroscientists have searched the brain for the biological basis of consciousness, assuming our thoughts, emotions, and subjective experiences emerge from networks of neurons.

Giants' Cam Skattebo on viral backflip fail, wild reputation: 'They wanna say I'm brain-dead ... who cares?'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cam-skattebo-backflip-b…

Government strategy is shaping the global brain-computer interface race https://neurotechreports.com/news/government-strategy-is-shaping-the-global-brain-computer-interface-race

Government Strategy Is Shaping the Global Brain-Computer Interface Race   - Neurotech Reports
Three events converged this year to turn brain-computer interfaces from a research curiosity into a subject of government strategy. China moved a product to market, having already built the machinery to pay for it. The U.S. funded a founder. The European Union asked its regulators to study a problem. This is not an accident of timing. It reflects fundamentally different beliefs about what a government should do when a new technology can read, and may soon write to, the human brain.  

"Hindbrain" is going to be a pretty epic insult
Human brain is two separate organs, research finds https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-human-brain.html

Human brain is two separate organs, research finds
For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years.

They use different words for things in America.
For instance they say elevator and we say lift.
They say drapes and we say curtains.
They say president and we say brain damaged git.
-- Alexie Sayle

China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated "brain-to-robot" platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trend…

BrainCo claims mind-to-robot link at China’s World AI Conference
Hangzhou-based firm says users can control robots using only their thoughts via EEG headsets, marking a leap in embodied AI tech.

Felony…camping
Imma go wash my brain out with bleach.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uqrng3jvztdp5xhengot5vhy/post/3mr6a6zq6lk2q

Bryce Covert (@brycecovert.bsky.social)
The phrase “felony camping” just really shouldn’t exist https://www.npr.org/2026/07/21/nx-s1-5887358/tennessee-homeless-arrest-felony-camping-ban

Cleaner city air linked to better cognitive development in children https://www.earth.com/environment/cleaner-city-air-linked-to-better-cognitive-development-in-children/

Cleaner city air linked to better cognitive development in children
Cleaner city air could have benefits that begin before birth, with new research linking pollution policies to healthier brain development in children.

Just went to look into what the “propagator model of computation” is, and read just enough to understand that it may be a better basis for actual AI than the LLM and diffusion models. Also just enough to recognize that I no longer have the brain of my 20’s, when I positively hoovered up such things.

Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014434 by @…

Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex
Author summary Vision doesn’t happen instantaneously, but unfolds over time. While we understand a lot about how the brain processes visual space, understanding how the brain processes information over both space and time is much more challenging. Vision happens incredibly fast, space and time are tightly linked, but current technology is limited in capturing these spatiotemporal dynamics. Here, we developed a method that combines two non-invasive human brain imaging techniques using computat…

I'm watching House 3x20 "House Training" #House

House Training
The doctors try to find what's wrong with a scam artist who collapses after her brain "freezes," but the case becomes personal for Foreman.

Exploring Brain Networks Using Noninvasive Electrophysiological Measurements: Methods and Applications
Richard Leahy, Takfarinas Medani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17602 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.17602 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.17602
arXiv:2607.17602v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) provide noninvasive measurements of brain activity with millisecond temporal resolution, enabling the investigation of functional and effective interactions within large-scale brain networks. This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the methodological foundations and practical workflows for EEG/MEG-based brain network analysis. We first review the physical principles underlying EEG and MEG, emphasizing their complementary strengths and limitations. We then describe the forward and inverse problems, including subject-specific head modeling, source reconstruction techniques, and the importance of accurate anatomical modeling for reliable source localization. Strategies for mitigating volume conduction and signal leakage are discussed, together with best practices for source-space connectivity analysis. The chapter reviews widely used functional and effective connectivity measures, including coherence, phase synchronization metrics, amplitude envelope correlation, Granger causality, dynamic causal modeling, and transfer entropy, highlighting their assumptions, advantages, and limitations. Modern end-to-end analysis pipelines are presented, with particular emphasis on Brainstorm and complementary open-source software for reproducible EEG/MEG research. Finally, we discuss emerging approaches, including time-varying connectivity, cross-frequency interactions, and network-based analyses, illustrating how noninvasive electrophysiology contributes to understanding brain organization in health and disease. The chapter provides both conceptual foundations and practical guidance for researchers and advanced students seeking to map and interpret human brain networks using EEG and MEG.
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budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 121755 edges.
Tags: Biol…

My local grocery store has an aisle labeled "conven. breakfast" where all the granola bars, poptarts, etc are sold. Presumably this is an abbreviation of "convenient".
My brain keeps trying to interpret that as an abbrevation of "convent" and I picture a bunch of nuns sitting around a table eating poptarts

TL;DR Trump had another brain fart. Nevertheless it’s unlikely anything good will come out of it.
Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal - Slashdot https://politics.slashdot.org/story/26

Sonnet 122 - CXXII
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full charactered with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date, even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be missed.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Ther…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Black Tones:
🎵 Brain Brain
#TheBlackTones
https://xbabybird.bandcamp.com/track/the-star-inside-the-brain

Companies developing brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will add smartglasses to compensate for ultra-crude vision, but smartglasses offering AI scene description, real-time talking OCR and sensory substitution may render the brain implant redundant. #BCI #blindness

For my own notes, These are the apps I use on my #Pebble Time 2
* [Brain Dump](https://apps.repebble.com/brain-dump-index01-for-your-pebble_e4f66f24bb0a4…

Ten years ago today, all* of #Canada gathered together to watch The Tragically Hip's last show.
Gord Downie, the band's lead singer and main songwriter, had been diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer, and The Hip went out on a farewell tour (though they did not call it that).
I did not get tickets to the Kingston show, but we watched at home with the kids. They probably barely re…

Just saw that #genAI models now have a "how to protect the environment" suggestion... which suggests to use different genAI models 😇🤣🤦
You want to know the best way to save energy and protect the environment?

• do not use genAI (use your own brain, or your friends')
• while you're at it, protest all the data centers that are getting built to support all that "energy-saving"…

Memories Mysteriously Survive After Brain Shutdown, And Scientists Don’t Know Why https://www.404media.co/memories-mysteriously-survive-after-brain-shutdown-and-scientists-dont-know-why/

I'm watching House 3x20 "House Training" #House

House Training
The doctors try to find what's wrong with a scam artist who collapses after her brain "freezes," but the case becomes personal for Foreman.

Psychedelics align brain activity with context https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10910-z Under psilocybin, "the separation between internal models and sensory context on which predictive processing depends" dissolves.
Brain-wide reconfiguration of burst firin…

Psychedelics align brain activity with context - Nature
The psychedelic psilocybin reorganizes brain activity into structured, context-aligned patterns that integrate internal and external processing, providing a neural basis for the felt continuity between self and world, elucidating how the psychedelic state translates into psychological change.

Fascist brutalized this man, gave him internal bleeding and a brain hemorrhage, then put an ankle monitor on him (08/11/26). They didn't let him get an MRI until 08/19/26
Let me know if the subtitles need to be edited, my Spanish isn't very good.
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1vreknd

My brain keeps mixing up The Hunt for Gollum with The Hunt for Ben Solo, and somehow I'm not too worried.

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year:
using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations.
Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during
anti-immigration demonstrations across the US,
including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

ICE ‘Crowd Control’ Led to Blindings and Traumatic Brain Injuries
It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations. Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations across the US, including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

Insofar China's push for implantable BCI development includes brain implants for the blind, this will also imply complementary development of smartglasses that may in turn render these brain implants redundant https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/116792852939522221

Dopamine, emotional regulation, healing, health and more - a great episode of Hidden Brain on 'what art does for your brain' with Daisy Fancourt and of course Shankar Vedantam
https://www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/what-art-does-for-your-brain/

What Art Does For Your Brain - Hidden Brain Media
Think about the last time a piece of music stopped you in your tracks, or a novel kept you up late at night. Why do these experiences feel so powerful? 

A deep dive into on-device and data center inference for robots, including a primer on robot models, deployments, supply chains, the "network wall", and more (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/a-brain-too-big-to-carry-on-device

Where Does a Robot Think — On-Device vs Datacenter Inference
Robot Models, Silicon Efficiency, Jetson Thor vs. B300 TCO, Deployments, The Network Wall

I get this, mostly because I fancy myself a writer:
https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/117113511781387827
I also know this is true, because I have witnessed it:

Having tinnitus, I found this interesting .
#tinnitus

Troy Aikman confesses about his "ridiculous" daily routine to protect brain after surviving 10 career concussions https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/troy-aikman-concussions-daily-…

Neurostimulation in the treatment of psychiatric disorders: Underlying mechanisms and critical analysis of circuit-based interventions https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-026-03872-1 "neurostimulation may function less as a direct elicitor of remission and more as a facilitat…

Neurostimulation in the treatment of psychiatric disorders: Underlying mechanisms and critical analysis of circuit-based interventions - Molecular Psychiatry
Neurostimulation of targeted brain regions has emerged as a novel therapeutic approach to induce remission in patients with various psychiatric disorders. This strategy encompasses several modalities, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and transcranial focused ultrasound neurostimulation (tFUS), all of which aim to modulate dysfunctional neural circuits and restore activity toward physiological ranges.…

Mum Brain
Join TV news journalist Estelle Griepink as she consults the collective mum brain to get you the answers you need to know in ten minutes or less...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mum-brain/

Wer nutzt #orgmode für #Journalling?
Ich komme von #Logseq und lege mir dort bei jedem Tag einen Eintrag an. Dieser ist mit einem Hauptthema verlinkt. So komme ich vom Hauptthema zum Tag oder vom Tag zum H…

Nature does something surprising to the brain beyond relieving stress https://www.earth.com/lifestyle/nature-does-something-surprising-to-the-brain-beyond-relieving-stress/

Nature does something surprising to the brain beyond relieving stress
Nature may do more than relieve stress, with evidence suggesting it can improve mood and thinking even when people already feel fine.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Flea:
🎵 Maggot Brain
#Flea
https://officialflea.bandcamp.com/track/maggot-brain
https://open.spotify.com/track/3poJZBl2yoeWbMMxX63YcE

Can red-light therapy treat brain injuries? Some research shows 'striking' results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7581642/2026/09/11/red-light-therapy-brain-injuries-journal-of-neurotrama/

A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet https://www.404media.co/a-digital-fly-brain-has-taken-over-the-internet/

From deep brain stimulation to brain–computer interfaces: current progress in implantable neurotechnology https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1928223/full

Frontiers | From deep brain stimulation to brain–computer interfaces: current progress in implantable neurotechnology
Brain implants, including deep brain stimulation (DBS) systems, brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), and speech neuroprostheses, are moving from the proof-of-co...

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain
A. Destexhe, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07956 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115349048459649454
- Noise-Induced Transitions and Coherence Resonance in a 5D Conductance-Based Neuronal Model
Yefan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04088 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/116532225216205715
- Dynamical Archetype Analysis: Autonomous Computation
Abel Sagodi, Il Memming Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05505 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDS_bot/114822419091532686
- Active Electrosensing and Communication in MARL-trained Weakly Electric Fish Collectives
Singh, Johnson-Yu, Lu, Walsman, Pedraja, Turcu, Sharma, Saphra, Sawtell, Rajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08436 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_bot/115535586856745674
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Israel-based Hemispheric, whose AI model can analyze brain activity measured non-invasively and turn it into quantitative metrics for diagnoses, raised $52M (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-neuroai-diagnostic-co-hemispheri…

NeuroAI diagnostic co Hemispheric raises $52m
The Israeli company’s AI model can analyze brain activity measured by non-invasive means and turn it into quantitative metrics designed to help doctors and researchers make diagnoses.

#Neuroscientists of the world - do you sometimes have questions about a new technique you're trying to setup in the lab? Or getting too much noise in your system and wondering why? Not sure why your rats / flies / humans are not learning? Which virus to get for your optogenetic experiment? How to stain brain slices? Whether an expensive piece of kit is worth buying? ...
The

NeuroMethods
A space to ask and answer questions about methods in Neuroscience (this replaces our previous Slack workspace). Prospective users: you should be able to join with an academic email :) | Cheers to Zulip for sponsoring our workspace!

At an Arkansas school, a boy was hit by the school’s founder and attacked by classmates in a group session the founder led, prompting a complaint and her arrest.
State Money Still Flows: Despite a jail term for the school’s founder, "The Delta Institute for the Developing Brain" continues to operate and Arkansas still sends it public funds.
Unregulated and Growing: BY DESIGN, private schools get little oversight in Arkansas even as new opportunities to receive state m…

This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.
One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about safety and fraud have gone unanswered, parents say.

Sensory restoration via brain-computer interfaces: a scoping review https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15091 "Teams developing high-density invasive stimulation interfaces rarely collaborate with teams building non-invasive sensory substitution setups";

Sensory Restoration via Brain-Computer Interfaces: A Scoping Review
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can restore sensory and motor function in individuals with severe neurological impairment, but the literature is fragmented between invasive neuroprosthetics and non-invasive electrophysiological decoders, with inconsistent terminology and metrics. This scoping review maps BCI-mediated sensory restoration along a unified 2x2 framework (invasiveness x signal direction), charts representative modalities and their trade-offs, and synthesizes a convergence roadmap f…

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

EU-approved pesticide found to have potential effects on brain development https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/02/eu-approved-pesticide-found-to-have-potential-effects-on-brain-development
…

(YouTube) No Priors podcast: From restoring sight to reimagining the brain, with Max Hodak, CEO of Science Corporation #BCI

I'm watching House 3x15 "Half-Wit" #House

Half-Wit
House encounters a brain-damaged musical prodigy with inexplicable abilities while the team faces serious concerns about House's own health.

Added a "Highlights" section to the white paper (living document) on brain implants for restoring vision to the blind and The vOICe vision BCI alternative https://www.seeingwithsound.com/BCI.html#highlights Dobelle, Argus II, Orion I. Neuralink Blindsight highlights: none …

The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper and living document comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260816044827.htm "neural traveling waves may function as a computational engine in the visual cortex";

Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see
Traveling electrical waves sweeping across the brain may help determine what we notice, predict what comes next, and construct our internal picture of the world. Researchers now argue that these waves aren't just background activity—they could be a core computational engine behind perception and memory.

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- The Illusion-Illusion: Vision Language Models See Illusions Where There Are None
Tomer Ullman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18613 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/113740853862270406
- An Intelligent Infrastructure as a Foundation for Modern Science
Satrajit S. Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10051 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115031786313942225
- The embodied brain: Bridging the brain, body, and behavior with biorealistic neuromechanical models
Sibo Wang-Chen, Pavan Ramdya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08056 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115892667909757712
- Microsecond-precision sound localization emerges from slow equilibrium dynamics
Toshio Irino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03890 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/116877637358323806
- A portable solution for simultaneous human movement and mobile EEG acquisition: readiness potenti...
Contreras-Altamirano, Klapprott, Jacobsen, Maanen, Welzel, Debener
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05378 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_bot/113802730861926461
- Geometric origin of adversarial vulnerability in deep learning
Yixiong Ren, Wenkang Du, Jianhui Zhou, Haiping Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01235 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115140809439719323
- Universal Approximation Theorems for Dynamical Systems with Infinite-Time Horizon Guarantees
Abel Sagodi, Il Memming Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08640 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDS_bot/116045857797065476
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PitchBook: companies developing brain-computer interfaces have already raised more than $1B in 2026, compared with $1.56B in the previous four years combined (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d7650673-23e9-4e41-81c9-d479c24705a0

Stanford researchers discover a language-specific network hidden in the human brain https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/stanford-researchers-discover-a-language-specific-network-hidden-in-the-human-brain/

Stanford researchers discover a language-specific network hidden in the human brain
The brain language network can be mapped from fMRI activity even while people rest or perform tasks unrelated to language.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116939454993880699
ICE ‘Crowd Control’ Led to Blindings and Traumatic Brain Injuries
Doctors and human rights experts documented
hundreds of incidents
from June 2025 through May 2026
-- and estimate true number is ‘fa…

I'm watching House 3x15 "Half-Wit" #House

Half-Wit
House encounters a brain-damaged musical prodigy with inexplicable abilities while the team faces serious concerns about House's own health.

A visual imagery paradigm for #BCI strategies using imagined flickering patterns https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-41324-6 (table correction at

A visual imagery paradigm for BCI strategies using imagined flickering patterns - Scientific Reports
Steady state visually evoked potentials (SSVEPs) are a popular type of control signals in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), in which they are typically elicited by observing a visual stimulus flashing at a specific frequency. For some patients, using SSVEP as control signal for a BCI can be difficult, for instance if they are unable to focus their gaze over the visual stimuli. To address this issue, some approaches were presented to design a gaze-independent SSVEP-controlled BCI but some diffic…

AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor (Alexei Oreskovic/Fortune)
https://fortune.c…

AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles
Subsense’s brain computing interface could compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink, but would not require surgery.

Delian Capital partner warns of a Chinese BCI bubble https://insidebci.com/market/2026-08-02-delian-capital-jiang-donghui-chinese-bci-bubble-cycle-vcbeat/ Jiang Donghui,

Delian Capital partner warns of a Chinese BCI bubble
VCBeat, the Chinese healthcare-investment media outlet, published an on-record investor take on the Chinese brain-computer interface sector on 2 August 2026. Delian Capital partner Jiang Donghui framed the sector as at risk of a bubble cycle before maturity, laid out a four-quadrant investment matrix based on demand and technological advancement, and named Chinese BCI companies across invasive, semi-invasive and non-invasive paths. H1 2026 financing alone accounted for approximately 60 per cent…

Scientists discover a surprising link between vitamin C and brain health #nutrition

Scientists discover a surprising link between vitamin C and brain health
Could something as simple as vitamin C help support a healthier aging brain? In a study of more than 2,000 older adults in Japan, researchers found that people with lower vitamin C levels in their blood also tended to have less gray matter and weaker connections in a key brain network involved in memory, attention, and other cognitive functions.

RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/116770859835603764
(YouTube, 2010) Paul Bach-y-Rita on the Brain Machine Interface https…

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

StairMed's penetrating BCI trial at Huashan reaches 18 cumulative implants https://insidebci.com/news/2026-07-20-stairmed-18-patients-huashan-shanghai-penetrating-bci-trial/

StairMed's penetrating BCI trial at Huashan reaches 18 cumulative implants
On 20 July 2026, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, StairMed disclosed that its cortex-penetrating invasive BCI clinical trial at Huashan Hospital has now reached 18 cumulative implants since March 2025. The Shanghai firm co-founded by Zhao Zhengtuo and Xue Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Center for Excellence in Brain Science demonstrated a patient three months post-op controlling a wheelchair by thought and hitting 6.19 bits per second on a cursor task, alongs…

Work is mostly good for our brains.
The evidence is strong that cognitive decline speeds up after retirement.
Now some people with hard physical jobs simply can’t keep them up.
The point here is what retirement means.
If you move from your job to other work such as volunteering,
new leisure activities,
learning new and complex skills,
then that’s actually not retirement.
You’re still at work.
Retirement to the couch and Netflix is a …

Let your mind wander, don’t retire and stop worrying: surprising ways to help save your brain from the cognitive cliff
In his new book The Brain Cliff, Dr Norman Swan outlines the science of brain ageing and strategies for staving off cognitive decline

Building brain-computer interfaces at a neurotech company https://www.thetransmitter.org/frameshift/building-brain-computer-interfaces-at-a-neurotech-company/ on Blackrock Neurotech;

Building brain-computer interfaces at a neurotech company
At Blackrock Neurotech, Spencer Kellis develops implantable devices that help people with brain and spinal cord conditions communicate, move and more.

Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/16/neural-bypass-brain-implant-paralysed-man-feed-himself-drink-from-cup "Keith Thomas can move ar…

Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup
Keith Thomas can move arms and hands, and feel sensation of touch after ‘double neural bypass’ and months of training

Long-term stability of cellular-resolution brain-computer interface recordings after stroke #BCI

Long-term stability of cellular-resolution brain-computer interface recordings after stroke
Implantable brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) with single-neuron resolution are showing great promise for restoring mobility and communication in individuals with spinal cord injury or motor neuron disease. Stroke is the most common cause of acquired brain injury and a major contributor to long-term disability, making chronic stroke a highly relevant indication for iBCIs. However, whether stable intracortical recordings can be obtained from the structurally lesioned human brain is unknown. We r…

Human-machine learning boosts noninvasive brain-computer control in untrained users https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-human-machine-boosts-noninvasive-brain.html "working on noninvasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to develop technology that is…

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
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Version v3 of the white paper and living document on The vOICe vision BCI and brain implants for restoring vision is now on Zenodo #BCI

(LinkedIn) According to some, China takes global lead in regulated brain-computer interfaces, speeding US medtech's regulatory race https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/china-takes-global-lead-regulated-brain-computer-interfaces-panda-yu-agy…

China Takes Global Lead in Regulated Brain-Computer Interfaces, Speeding U.S. Medtech’s Regulatory Race
China’s Strategic Lead in the BCI Medtech Landscape ### 1. Regulatory Leadership & Rapid Commercialization Pathways ### 2.

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Building brain-computer interfaces: the 3 pillars of #Paradromics https://paradromics.com/blog/building-brain-computer-interfaces-3-pillars/ referencing TK Kozai (2015…

Building Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)
We treat safety, performance, & durability not as tradeoffs but as minimum thresholds. Learn how the Connexus BCI was designed to meet all 3.

China releases world's first AI-enabled brain-computer interface medical device standard #AI

China releases world’s first AI-enabled brain-computer interface medical device standard: media - Global Times
China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) on Monday approved the release of its third medical device standard for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which is also the world’s first medical device product standard for BCIs that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to process brain electrical signal data. The new standard will officially take effect on September 1, 2027, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Monday.

To ChatGPT: Will a Phosphoenix LGN brain implant really become a product for restoring vision to the blind, or is this mostly an intermediate goal serving European BCI technology development? https://chatgpt.com/share/6aaf827f-c700-83ed-a8a9-c95bcf3deb94

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For Elon Musk, Neuralink Blindsight likely merely temporarily serves his current PR needs ("Jesus-level" technology) and as a stepping stone to treating other conditions that are not for a niche market like blindness, or as a stepping stone to mass-market consumer BCIs with AI. Musk is unlikely to do anything mature and sustainable for blindness.
The vOICe vision BCI, on the other hand, has the singular goal of bringing a lasting equivalent of (low) vision to the world

The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper and living document comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.

"Paradromics achieves real-time speech with Connexus BCI" https://paradromics.com/news/paradromics-achieves-real-time-speech-connexus-brain-computer-interface/

Paradromics Achieves Real-Time Speech with Connexus® Brain-Computer Interface
Paradromics' Connexus® BCI enables the first participant to speak in real time using neural activity, choosing her own words to communicate.

Bursts of ‘pink noise’ during sleep seem to help clear waste from brain https://www.newscientist.com/article/2588451-bursts-of-pink-noise-during-sleep-seem-to-help-flush-waste-from-brain/ (archived at

Bursts of ‘pink noise’ during sleep seem to help clear waste from brain | New Scientist
The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process

(2022) Using the Orion brain implant for restoring vision, "Three years on, I can now make out fireworks, the birthday candles on my cake, and spot the lights and darks when doing laundry." https://www.thatslife.com.au/real-life/brain-implant-blindness…

Jason was blinded in a car crash – then a brain implant changed his life
Jason got a second chance at sight thanks to brain surgery where a surgeon implanted a device on his visual cortex.

Arbor Neuroscience CEO Philip Sabes tells Shanghai BCI symposium that prediction is the neuromodulation bottleneck https://insidebci.com/news/2026-09-19-philip-sabes-arbor-neuroscience-shanghai-bci-inno-salon-fudan-fores…

Arbor Neuroscience CEO Philip Sabes tells Shanghai BCI symposium that prediction is the neuromodulation bottleneck
Philip Sabes, a Neuralink founding scientist (2017 to 2020) and now CEO of Arbor Neuroscience, delivered a keynote at the BCI Inno+ Salon International Symposium on Brain-Computer Interface in Shanghai on 14 September 2026. His stated thesis was that the real bottleneck in neuromodulation is prediction: because clinicians cannot reliably predict what will happen after brain stimulation, treatment outcomes are inconsistent. Sabes summarised current practice as 'poke and hope' and positioned Arbo…

WIRED: Her brain was broken. It was fixed with sound - not a scalpel https://www.wired.com/story/brain-focused-ultrasound/ (archived at https://a…

The Brain and The Chip 2026, October 26-28, Spain #BCI

Scientific and technological developments in brain-computer interfaces: Dual bibliometric analysis of articles and patents #BCI

Music evokes shared neural representations of imagined narratives across sensory modalities https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-76452-0
"The knowledge that auditory information can be encoded in visual areas and vice versa is not new, as is shown, for example in the…

Science Corporation names Darius Shahida President as PRIMA retinal implant enters commercial rollout https://insidebci.com/news/2026-09-19-science-corporation-darius-shahida-president-butterfly-network-alameda-prima/ f…

Science Corporation names Darius Shahida President as PRIMA retinal implant enters commercial rollout
Science Corporation, Max Hodak's Alameda-headquartered neural engineering and brain-computer interface company, announced on 17 September 2026 that Chief Strategy Officer Darius Shahida has been appointed President in a dual role. Shahida joined full-time in January 2026 as CSO after eight years at Butterfly Network and after first participating in Science's Series B as an investor. He is the second senior Butterfly Network alumnus hired by Science this year; Nevada Sanchez, a Butterfly Network…

The problem with adaptive DBS https://tmrwedition.com/2026/09/12/the-problem-with-adaptive-dbs/ Critique on closed-loop brain stimulation for treating Parkinson's disease: over-reliance on the beta signal. Should also monitor tremor, gait, balance and dyskinesia fo…

The Pros and Cons of Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation (aDBS)
Explore the pros and cons of Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation, highlighting patient control issues and potential for better real-world data integration.

Do non-language regions become language regions? The case of deprived sensory cortices https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awag242/8728959 "Deprived sensory cortices, contrary to many claims, do not become language regio…

Some Neuralink Blindsight Lite brain implant? No, just The vOICe vision BCI web app https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm No surgery: gets implanted in your browser cache, not in your head. Be safe. Butcher number = 0.

The vOICe web app
Platform-independent progressive web app version of The vOICe vision BCI.

Scientists discover the brain can rewire itself to truly multitask https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-the-brain-can-rewire-itself-to-truly-multitask/ Implications for sensory substitution? Sensory overload?
Extensive experienc…

Scientists Discover the Brain Can Rewire Itself To Truly Multitask
Extensive practice can rewire the brain so a learned skill runs more automatically, making some forms of true multitasking possible.

Vision restoration to people with long-term blindness using the brain-computer interface technology: A sociotechnical research framework to improve usefulness for users #BCI

Vision Restoration to People with Long-Term Blindness Using the Brain- | PPA | Dove Medical Press
employ a sociotechnical approach to discuss aspects that influence the usefulness of the vision restoration to people with long-term blindness

It's now well over 2 months after the third blind person received an ICVP brain implant for restoring vision. How is she doing? Here are video clips of ICVP recipient Chyvonne Wilson Blanchard in her first days of training https://www.facebook.com/chyvonne.blanchard/owner_reels

What patients actually think about 'minimally invasive' brain implants https://archive.ph/gm7le (archived from https://www.…

China's first commercial insurance policy for invasive BCI surgery is out https://insidebci.com/market/2026-08-16-picc-property-casualty-china-first-commercial-insurance-invasive-bci-surgery-zhejiang/

China's first commercial insurance policy for invasive BCI surgery is out
State-owned PICC Property and Casualty signed China's first commercial insurance policy covering invasive brain-computer interface surgery on Wednesday 12 August 2026. Counterparty is the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. Zhejiang Provincial Government Office released a same-day industry-policy package. Hong Kong and Shenzhen BCI-tagged stocks rallied.

For the believers: Towards interstellar brain-computer interfaces #BCI

Project Overview ‹ Towards Interstellar Brain-Computer Interfaces – MIT Media Lab
Currently, we are seeing more and more robotics and AI efforts in space. However, to scale human activity and energy in space, we need humans in space — and we…

(2019, Amazon) My brain implant for bionic vision: the first trial of artificial sight for the blind #BCI