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The Aging Brain Isn't Declining – It's Adapting, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-aging-brain-isnt-declining-its-adapting-study-finds

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

Having tinnitus, I found this interesting .
#tinnitus

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

On the seductive promise of phrenology and its progeny
https://canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/popular_science

Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/987936/anker-eufy-mindba…

Anker’s new MindBase is an AI-powered brain for your smart home
The company also announced a new Eufy video doorbell with VR features and a window camera.

Chinese Academy of Sciences names brain-computer interfaces a priority field in its 2026 to 2030 plan https://insidebci.com/policy/2026-09-30-chinese-academy-of-sciences-15th-five-year-plan-bci-priority-field-cebsit-stairm…

Chinese Academy of Sciences names brain-computer interfaces a priority field in its 2026 to 2030 plan
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China's top state research body, announced on 28 September 2026 that it had released its 15th Five-Year development plan covering 2026 to 2030. The plan lists brain-computer interfaces among its 'important priority fields' (重要优先领域), alongside integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, quantum science and technology, life sciences and biotechnology, and controlled nuclear fusion. CAS will organise research around a '3+4+X' regional layout wit…

A treasure trove of daily puzzles: https://puzzleship.com
All free, new ones daily!

I don't know why, but my brain associates "Omarchy" with "menarche".

“On 11 separate days, more than three million travelers flowed through the American flies, they, they, uh … American skies were loaded up with planes,” Trump, 80, said while seated at the Resolute Desk.
It’s clear that Trump meant to say “American skies,”
but that his "brain" got in the way
https:…

Trump, 80, Totally Garbles Attempt to Brag About Tourism in U.S.
Apparently travelers “flowed through the American flies.”

I'm on a deep programming binge right now. My least favorite thing to do when I'm like this is trying to have coherent conversations with anyone. It's hard to string more than three words together right now.
I can still write just fine. It's interesting that it's mostly my verbal abilities that are affected. A friend of mine who used to be a developer once asked me in all seriousness, "Does programming cause brain damage? Do you recover from this?"

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

Aus aktuellem Anlass eine Studie von 2025:
ChatGPT macht Sie alle dumm.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalo…

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? 

#PennedPossibilities 1146 Does romance ever feature in your work?
Not in my WIP, how'd that even work? We're inside a brain in my WIP.
In other stories, I do write about romance. It's usually a part of the human condition, to be infatuated, enamoured, becharmed, or smitten by someone. But it is also a part of the human experience to be rejected, ignored, or forgo…

my brain decided to do this to me for some reason

1 big thing: Brain implants stoke U.S.-China rivalry #BCI

🧠 Brain implant rivalry

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260721000822.htm

I just read the sentences "[nyc garbage] Bins will destroy the character of neighborhoods. We will have fewer cars and more dumpsters," and
a) I want my brain cells back
b) if your neighborhood character is "cars", then is it really a neighborhood, or is it a parking lot?

Wer mich liest, weiß, daß ich dem Einsatz generativer #KI durchaus sehr kritisch gegen­überstehe, aus einer Reihe unter­schiedlicher Gründe. Und die Berichte und Studien über Brain Rot und Verlust von Fähigkeiten weisen sicher auf relevante Probleme hin.¹
Aber der Aufschrei unsere Kinder würden jetzt alle verblöden erscheint mir übertrieben². Wir hatten: Computerspiele verblöden Kinder, TV, Co…

(image) AI-generated impression of what happens once a brain implant for restoring vision starts to fail, versus The vOICe sensory substitution alternative #BCI

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'`,…

"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.

#WordWeavers 2. Which character knows your MC better than your MC knows themselves?
That is a hard question because the MC doesn't know themselves as good as they think they do, and almost everyone in The Mansion know them very well. I'm almost inclined to say 'Who doesn't know them better than they do themselves?' actually, though Fronty Front Brain bark might take off…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Ween:
🎵 Help Me Scrape the Mucus Off My Brain
#Ween
https://lilorphananarchy.bandcamp.com/track/help-me-scrape-the-mucus-off-my-brain-ween
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uBLY1Txqiy8hamP11QcGc

🧠 #VoiceMem is an #opensource memory system for real-time #voiceagents, built on a streaming dual-brain architecture

#Subsense: Interview with CEO and co-founder Tetiana Aleksandrova about non-surgical brain-computer interfaces https://pulse2.com/subsense-profile-tetiana-aleksandrova-interview/

Subsense: Interview With CEO And Co-Founder Tetiana Aleksandrova About Non-Surgical Brain-Computer Interfaces
Subsense is developing NanoBCI, a bidirectional brain-computer interface designed to read neural signals, decode them, and eventually send information back to the brain without requiring brain surgery. The company is initially targeting medical applications such as Parkinson’s disease, with a longer-term vision of creating a consumer brain-computer interface for communication, AI interaction, and digital environments. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Subsense CEO and Co-Founder Tetiana Aleksandrova to l…

Better Being Me
Discover how our executive functioning, neural pathways and brain mapping open up new, innovative ways of BE-ing that will forever change the way you relate to yourself and the world around you...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/better

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.

"The testing data Six Flags handed over to inspectors was informed by safety standards from a committee composed of theme park operators and ride manufacturers, the outlet reported." Why do we keep relying on #Industry developed #SafetyStandards? Yes, industry reps must participate - b…

Rollercoaster at LA’s Six Flags shut after two riders suffered brain injuries, inquiry finds
X2 ride at Magic Mountain has been closed for a month after one rider experienced brain compression and another remains in coma

"The testing data Six Flags handed over to inspectors was informed by safety standards from a committee composed of theme park operators and ride manufacturers, the outlet reported." Why do we keep relying on #Industry developed #SafetyStandards? Yes, industry reps must participate - b…

Rollercoaster at LA’s Six Flags shut after two riders suffered brain injuries, inquiry finds
X2 ride at Magic Mountain has been closed for a month after one rider experienced brain compression and another remains in coma

When #opendata are misused … by AI
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/10/01/openneuro-dataset-fmri-brain-data-misuse/

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/

Man..
Did I have a shitty night.
And when I finally fell asleep I dreamt of not being able to fucking fall asleep.
Thanks for nothing, brain 🙄

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

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…

My wife and kids are away for a couple of days leaving me alone at our place [well me and the cat]. This morning I woke up and on autopilot I made two coffees (I always make a coffee for my wife, since I get up first). Only when I finished did I realise what I had done.
On the plus side, two coffees for me! And apparently I needed two anyway for my brain to work properly.
The takeaway from this story is that everything worked out just great.

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…

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.

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…

Good grief, my brain and I don't get along today.

It has belatedly emerged that a 6-year-old girl in China who had a rare genetic disease
died a week after receiving the world's first brain gene-editing treatment.
The researchers released animal test results in the international journal Nature this year ahead of the treatment,
but did not disclose the already conducted clinical trial and the patient's death in the paper.
The international journal Science and the research-ethics outlet Retraction Watch reported…

China conceals child death after first brain base-editing trial, spurring ethics uproar - CHOSUNBIZ
China conceals child death after first brain base-editing trial, spurring ethics uproar Parents paid $860,000 as Shanghai Jiao Tong teams undisclosed base-editing trial ends in a childs death, prompting global ethics scrutiny

I was today years old when I realized that the actresses ADA Claire Kincaid in Law & Order and Agatha in Agatha All Along played side by side in Crossing Jordan.
So my brain spun the idea of the two of them solving crimes in New York, in a supernatural Law & Order spinoff.
And yes, of course, there is already fanfic about this in AO3: Crossing Rio by DiscoPitts

(image) AI-generated impression of what happens once a brain implant for restoring vision starts to fail. #BCI #blindness

RE: https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a--fp4NrplT0qcynd8L64X8w:a:3807498986-/0
NYC car-brain continues..

The 60-second history of brain tech (from lobotomies to Neuralink) https://www.neurotechmag.com/p/the-60-second-history-of-brain-tech "What happens to a paralyzed patient’s device when the company that made it runs out of funding?"

The 60-second history of brain tech (from lobotomies to Neuralink)
A hundred years ago doctors were carving into frontal lobes with tools barely better than kitchen utensils. Now paralyzed patients type by thought alone. Here's how we got from one to the other.

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

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.

Advanced developers describe a new kind of fatigue with generative artificial intelligence:
"vibecoding fatigue"
or "AI brain fry".
This could affect all language professions, from journalists to lawyers to translators.
https:/…

La « vibecoding fatigue » : épuisés par l’IA, les développeurs informatiques inventent leurs propres parades
Les développeurs les plus en pointe avec l’intelligence artificielle générative décrivent une fatigue d’un genre nouveau : la « vibecoding fatigue » ou l’« AI brain fry ».

Toward accessible, real-time brain decoding: Introducing ENIGMA https://www.alljoined.com/blog/introducing-enigma "a new multi-subject decoding model that reconstructs seen images from EEG signals with state-of-the-art accuracy"
ENIGMA: EEG-to-image in 15 minutes using…

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

#WordWeavers 9/30: What stereotypes do your MCs deal with in their world?
This one made me realise that my MC doesn't really deal with stereotypes in the conventional sense.
The Mansion is populated by personified brain functions, so everyone has very strong expectations about everyone else's role.
Prefrontal Cortex is expected to be rational, Hippocampus is the abs…

(YouTube) AI-generated: "How the brain constructs reality" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV9nPxNip4g based in part on ideas of David Eagleman

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Orb:
🎵 A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld
#TheOrb
https://theorb.bandcamp.com/track/a-huge-ever-growing-pulsating-brain-that-rules-from-the-centre-of-the-ultraworld-orbital-dance-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3sX6nwEUXjpejtqNvQAl3p

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"…

Ghost in the Shell to Neuralink: Inside the 2026 brain-computer interface trials turning cyberbrains into reality https://goearlybirdlab.com/2026/09/27/ghost-in-the-shell-to-neuralink-inside-the…

Merge Labs and Butterfly Network partner to advance ultrasound-based brain-computer interfaces https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260901999280/en/Merge-Labs-and-Butterfly-Network-Partner-t…

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

Mate, which is developing a platform to allow AI agents to detect, respond to, and proactively hunt threats, raised a $35M Series A led by Canaan Partners (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryb30q8bge

Former Wiz and Microsoft veterans raise $35 million Series A to build the “operating system” for AI cybersecur
Mate Security says traditional security operations were not designed for AI-scale attacks. The startup is betting that trusted autonomous agents, powered by an “organizational brain,” will reshape how companies detect and respond to threats. 

The vOICe vision BCI is the ultimate testcase for human brain plasticity https://artificialvision.com/literature.htm

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

Chinese Premier Li Qiang publicly names brain-computer interfaces a 'blue ocean' on a Shanghai inspection tour https://insidebci.com/policy/2026-09-23-li-qiang-shanghai-brain-computer-interfaces-blue-oce…

Chinese Premier Li Qiang publicly names brain-computer interfaces a 'blue ocean' on a Shanghai inspection tour
China's Premier Li Qiang, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, spent Tuesday 22 September 2026 on a Shanghai inspection tour of two innovation venues. At the second, the Shanghai Future Kick-off Community (上海未来启点社区) sci-tech innovation and incubation platform for future industries, he inspected technology products in two named categories: brain-computer interfaces and quantum computing. He then framed future industries as 'a potential blue ocean for advanced manufacturi…

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

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.

A new framework for how the brain compresses our noisy world https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-framework-for-how-the-brain-compresses-our-noisy-world-20260824/ "An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understand…

A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World | Quanta Magazine
An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet.

#Neuralink on representational drift (until recently): "Users spend an average of 55 minutes per week calibrating simply to maintain control." https://neuralink.com/updates/pretraining-on…

Pretraining on 50,000 Hours of Unlabeled Brain Data
How self-supervised encoders kept neural decoders working for weeks without recalibration and set an 11.32 BPS record.

Elon Musk, it's October 2026. Why can Neuralink still not even show a video clip of a monkey performing a blind reaching and grasping task using its Blindsight brain implant? #BCI

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 112890 edges.
Tags: Biol…

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.  

(LinkedIn) Neuralink cumulative human brain implants - actual vs originally projected (through August 2026) https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7498061682275950592/

#implantable #invasive #bci #neurotech | Peter Meijer
Neuralink cumulative human brain implants - actual vs originally projected (through August 2026), according to ChatGPT https://lnkd.in/erCDJkMT Still zero reported Neuralink Blindsight brain implants for restoring vision in blind humans https://lnkd.in/e5ge8iZU #implantable #invasive #BCI #NeuroTech

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.

China clears brain-computer interfaces for commercial use: Is it time for a global coalition? https://thedebrief.org/china-clears-brain-computer-interfaces-for-commercial-use-is-it-time-for-a-global-coalition/

China Clears Brain-Computer Interfaces for Commercial Use: Is It Time for a Global Coalition?
Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.

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.

(Review) Emerging promise in artificial vision research: unveiling transformative potential through brain-computer interfaces https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0893608026011482 No mention of sensory substitution due to literature search on to…

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.

Updated white paper (living document) on brain implants for restoring vision and noninvasive visual-to-auditory sensory substitution #BCI

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.

Development of a primary visual cortex model to investigate cortical visual prosthesis stimulation #BCI

Development of a Primary Visual Cortex Model to Investigate Cortical Visual Prosthesis Stimulation
A new electrical stimulation focused computational model of the visual cortex had been created to aid in the development of cortical visual prosthesis. The model consists of 10,666 biophysical neurons representing 0.13mm3 of a layer 2/3 of the primary visual cortex and was calibrated to match the baseline activity of rat brain recordings. A novel model of electrical stimulation was developed to allow for selective activation of specific neuron types, and matched the single cell stimulation resp…

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.

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

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...

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…

#FDA expands device compatibility for #Paradromics' brain-computer interface https://www.

(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.

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

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.

(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.

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…

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…

We learned to read. We never learned to write https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/we-learned-to-read-we-never-learned "Like a star in the sky", pouring some cold water on brain implants for restoring vision, by TK Kozai in the "Why BCIs Fail" series…

#Neuralink cumulative human brain implants - actual vs originally projected (through August 2026) https://chatgpt.com/share/6a8d4c67-aa30-83eb-be07-ac657bbef6c7

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.

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.

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…

"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.

Some archived AI model responses to questions relating to vision for the blind, brain implants for restoring vision, visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (The vOICe) https://www.seeingwithsound.com/archive/index.html ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, Consensus, Perplexity, …

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.

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