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🤯 The brain region associated with moral inconsistency
#brain

The brain region associated with moral inconsistency
Why don't some people practice what they preach? Researchers reveal that a brain region called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is involved. The researchers used fMRI imaging to identify brain activity patterns associated with moral behavior and judgment. People who behaved dishonestly despite judging the same behavior as immoral in others had less activity in the vmPFC, and when the researchers stimulated participants' vmPFCs, they became more morally inconsistent. The work is publis…

Intermittent fasting triggers surprising changes in the brain #health

Intermittent fasting triggers surprising changes in the brain
Losing weight may involve rewiring the gut and the brain at the same time. In a study of obese adults, an intermittent fasting-style diet led to significant weight loss, healthier metabolic markers, and notable shifts in gut bacteria. Brain scans also revealed changes in regions tied to appetite, cravings, and self-control. The results suggest the gut microbiome and brain may work together to influence weight-loss success.

Having screen-free time and mindful walks (or and other mindful activity) is great.
#mindfulness
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/n

An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-man-making-music-with-his-brain-implant/

Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant
Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful.

Remember the vacuum tube train? The car tunnels? The brain implant chip? The humanoid robots? Making government “efficient”? An AGI based on… tweets (wtf)?
But sure, colonizing Mars is totally real.

Think of the song that's the biggest ear worm to you lately.
Now thinking about an automatic body function that usually don't think about but is hard to ignore once you do.
Now think about that really awkward thing you said a long time ago that your brain brings up at 2 in the morning.
Goodnight >:3

China has approved the world's first invasive brain-computer chip - here's what's next https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/01/1138133/china-world-first-brain-chip/ (archived at

China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next
The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process.

Sorry, brain fart and typo. Part of the problem with trying to do philosophy when mentally ill is I have a lot of brain fog, and can't really evaluate how good my ideas are.
However, when I typed 'survival', what I meant to type (and thought I had typed, was 'society'.

I find a form of active de-computing is one of the best ways to cope with the current exceeding world pain exhaustion & LLM brain drain around, i.e. doing more things offline, with your hands/body, being more present in your world, getting into crafts/materials, creating/fixing/mending things and sharing your lessons learned with others (in that sense quite in the spirit of open source culture).
To some this is may be just another form of entitled escapism, though I see it as activ…

About one in eight people globally have some form of sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea causes breathing to stop and start several times during sleep.
This happens because either your airway is blocked, known as obstructive sleep apnea,
or you brain isn’t controlling your breathing as it should, known as central sleep apnea. 
For decades, the main form of treatment for this population has been the continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine, which helps keep a person’s a…

Beyond CPAP: The future of sleep apnea treatment
In a Q&A, sleep medicine specialist Klar Yaggi discusses the future of sleep apnea treatment, from medication to artificial intelligence.

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Cypress Hill:
🎵 Insane In The Brain
#NowPlaying #CypressHill
https://demloxx.bandcamp.com/track/cypress-hill-insane-in-the-brain-demloxx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6DtVPEJXQxDp7nn3Kp076o

Brain-Computer-Interface: zunehmender Einsatz, Risiken, lückenhafte Rechtslage
BCIs können helfen, motorische Fähigkeiten und Kommunikation wieder zu ermöglichen. Das Potenzial ist enorm, Rechtslage und Ethik noch weitgehend ungeklärt.

The Dissociated Universe: Bernardo Kastrup’s Analytic Idealism and the Mind That Contains the World
This essay completes a sequence. The first article considered Iain McGilchrist's panpsychist proposal that matter is a phase of consciousness, the way ice and vapor are phases of water. Its companion examined Daniel Dennett's illusionism, which argued that consciousness as we ordinarily conceive it is a user illusion the brain stages for itself. The third position, the…

The Dissociated Universe: Bernardo Kastrup’s Analytic Idealism and the Mind That Contains the World | David Boles, Blogs
This essay completes a sequence. The first article considered Iain McGilchrist’s panpsychist proposal that matter is a phase of consciousness, the way ice and vapor are phases of water. Its c…

Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-is-funding-a-wild-hunt-for-t…

Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.

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'`,…

Not the usual stuff I post.

I woke at 2am and it's now 3am and my brain is still swirling. Unlike my usual insomnia routine, I am choosing to read my masto feed in the hope that my brain changes direction and settles down. Good luck to anyone else awake and struggling to sleep.

I am currently discovering step by step the work of Mark Hallett :
https://www.thetransmitter.org/brain-stimulation/remembering-mark-hallett-leader-in-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation/
Quite a long journ…

For those who have been hearing of a Fly Brain being uploaded, the work you've been hearing of is impressive, yet as always the pop science media has warped what happened a bit:
„The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.”
https://…

The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.
Scientists mapped a fruit fly’s 139,255 neurons in extraordinary detail. Then a startup turned that milestone into a story about brain…

Imagination is not just replaying what we see and hear https://www.sciencenews.org/article/imagination-perception-overlap-brain-neuroscience "Conjuring a nonspecific scene or sound pings brain networks that respond to more than one sense"

Imagination is not just replaying what we see and hear
The findings differ from prior work, showing it's tough to disentangle how similarly our brains register imagined thoughts and real sensations.

I'm getting stack frames corrupted (or else I'm hitting the wrong stack frames) and I can't see why. My brain is far too messed up to deal with this level of shit just now!
#PostScarcitySoftware
#TheJoyOfSoftwareEngineering

The first gene therapy for deafness earns FDA approval.
About sixty percent of all babies born deaf have some underlying genetic cause,
and mutations in the OTOF gene account for between 2 and 8 percent of them.
That gene encodes a protein called otoferlin, which enables hair cells inside the ear to transmit messages into the brain.
The OTOF gene is quite long, though, stretching about 90,000 bases of DNA.
This means it’s too long to ‘package’ inside a single vi…

A wandering mind is not the enemy of focus. It is the foundation of it. Your brain does not run on intensity. It runs on rhythm.
#NeuroScience

Nearly 300 studies link the common pesticide chlorpyrifos to multi-organ damage, DNA disruption, and chronic disease https://usrtk.org/healthwire/chlorpyrifos-multi-organ-damage-dna-disruption-and-chronic-disease/

Nearly 300 studies link the common pesticide chlorpyrifos to multi-organ damage, DNA disruption, and chronic disease 
A sweeping review of nearly 300 studies finds the pesticide chlorpyrifos damages the brain, hormones, DNA, the liver— even at "safe" exposure levels.

"My brain hurts."

"You wouldn't normally buy this pile of dogshit, but what if we mixed all this dogshit together with shit from other animals and put a pretty bow on it and called it a cupcake? Would you buy it then?"
https://beige.party/@maxleibman/116507984376346134

😯😯😯
https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/whole-brain-emulation-achieved-scientists-run-a-fruit-fly-brain-in-simulation/
Thanks @…

Whole Brain Emulation Achieved: Scientists Run a Fruit Fly Brain in Simulation | RathBiotaClan
Scientists ran a real fruit fly brain in simulation using the FlyWire connectome, achieving the first working whole brain emulation.

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'`,…

Brain prioritizes "sound offsets" during hearing repair https://neurosciencenews.com/auditory-repair-noise-damage-30639/
Noise-induced reduction and early recovery of superior paraolivary nucleus sound-offset responses

Brain Prioritizes "Sound Offsets" During Hearing Repair - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

WATCH: Cowboys last-chance bookends getting Hall of Fame assist https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/03/tyron-smith-joins-cowboys-tackles-for-drill-work-at-otas/90395451007/

No brain today. Just be.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
SUX:
🎵 Brain Dead
#SUX
https://suxmusic.bandcamp.com/track/brain-dead
https://open.spotify.com/track/2HFFo5hZInkgtfitv1azeK

EyeBrain: Left and Right Brain Lateralization Activity Classification Through Pupil Diameter and Fixation Duration
Ko Watanabe, Pooja Pol, Nicolas Gro{\ss}mann, Shoya Ishimaru, Andreas Dengel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23562 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.23562 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.23562
arXiv:2604.23562v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The relationship between brain lateralization and cognitive functions is well-documented. The left hemisphere primarily handles tasks such as language and arithmetic, while the right hemisphere is involved in creative activities like drawing and music perception. Eye-tracking technology has shown the potential to reveal cognitive states by measuring ocular metrics such as pupil diameter and fixation duration. However, the ability to distinguish lateralized brain activity using these ocular metrics remains underexplored. Here, we demonstrate that pupil diameter and fixation duration can effectively classify left and right brain hemisphere activities. We obtained a considerably high classification performance, with an F1 score of 0.894. The results suggest that ocular metrics are robust indicators of lateralized brain activity and can be applied in cognitive monitoring and neurorehabilitation. Our future work expands on this by integrating these methods into real-time applications EyeBrain, potentially broadening their use across various cognitive and neurological domains.
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A shoutout to the systems engineers that made Microsoft Windows so fragile, that a single file browser (explorer.exe) freezing causes my Edge downloads to pause, and closing the frozen file browser closes all my file browsers.
My ADHD brain needed those open file browsers so I could keep track of all my in-progress tasks. How do I resume now? Yeah, I suppose I could come up with a better system than that.

Sweet jesus, I think the brain worms have worked on this one beyond remedy. The whole thing is toast.

(YouTube, 2025) The surprising way the brain is wired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9939jVJIZYo "What if vast areas of the brain contribute to many different functions and its connectivity is far more intricate than we once believed?"

Once more I have woken up with Killing Joke rattling around my brain.
Nine tenths of the law that is sick
Is possession
Life expressed in matter is a blasphemy
Success defined by acquisition stinks
So busy trying to make a living I forget about living, yes, I do
So busy trying to make a living, I forget about life

En la mani del #1deMayo un compañero me ha hablado de este artículo sobre la salud del uso de la #ia en el entorno laboral. No lo he leído aún pero me ha dicho que es muy interesante lo que plantea

Thx Paul for a very informative and inspired Brain Inspired.
#neuroscience

💧 Hydraulic brain: Body motion linked to fluid movement in the brain
#brain

Hydraulic brain: Body motion linked to fluid movement in the brain
The brain is more mechanically connected to the body than previously appreciated, scientists report in Nature Neuroscience. Through a study using mice and simulations, the team found a potential biological mechanism underlying why exercise is thought to benefit brain health: abdominal contractions compress blood vessels connected to the spinal cord and the brain, enabling the organ to gently move within the skull. This swaying facilitates the surrounding cerebrospinal fluid to flow over the bra…

How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices (Shalini Ramachandran/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/y…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Chris Brain:
🎵 Kinds of Kindness
#ChrisBrain

Many years ago, a friend said he was following “The S Diet”. It was very simple and memorable:
——
No Sweets or Seconds, except on Saturday and Sunday.
——
Simple… easy… and it actually worked for me as a way to help maintain or reduce weight (along with some mild level of exercise).
My challenge is that in the intervening years, my brain fought that and changed it to:
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No Sweets or Seconds, except on days ending in ‘y’.
——
🤣🤦‍♂️
Un-doin…

It's a week since my last #PostScarcitySoftware entry. The version of eval/apply copied from `0.0.6` still doesn't compile, let alone work. There are reasons. I've been ill — my brain really is fucked — and I've had urgent outdoor work.
There is progress. I am cleaning up bits of old cruft as I go. But I don't think copying the old code was a good decision. I…

Working in BCI: Culture, Purpose, & Vision #BCI #NeuroTech

Working in BCI: Culture, Purpose, & Vision
Motif Neurotech's Jacob Robinson, Neurosoft's Nicolas Vachicouras, Precision Neuroscience's Benjamin Rapoport, Science Corp's Max Hodak, Paradromics' Matt Angle, Synchron's Tom Oxley, weigh in on culture in brain-computer interface

Meta FAIR: KI-Zwilling für menschliche Neuronen
TRImodal Brain Encoder in zweiter Version veröffentlicht. Meta FAIR kann damit vorhersagen, wie das menschliche Gehirn reagiert.
https://www.heis…

A study in Nature Health finds that microplastics and nanoplastics
were at a higher level in brain tumour samples from living patients
than in healthy human brain samples from cadavers,
with a correlation between microplastic surface area and tumour proliferation. https://go.nature.com/4cuBK4I…

Massachusetts-based brain implant company Axoft raised a $55M Series A and says it tested its device in a Shanghai patient, with plans for more trials in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

One of those things about claims of “AGI” is that to really build a human-like intelligence we’d have to simulate a human brain as whole because 1. it’s the only thing we know that produces human intelligence and 2. no one knows how it actually works.
Because of (2) it’s irrelevant what anyone says about LLMs or any other technology (with the exception of simulating a whole brain)—you can’t know if a technology is intelligent like a human because we don’t know what that means or how that works.
Fun thing, it turns out it’s impossible to simulate a whole brain with the resolution required (basically quantum physics level), and you’d have to emulate a chemical and physical environment for the brain as well (it will also need a body etc.).
You’d also have to simulate other humans with brains from which the brain can learn; but to simulate those you’d have simulate evolving humans from single-cell organisms first etc etc ad infinitum

Study finds dangerous lead levels in children’s clothing #children

Study finds dangerous lead levels in children’s clothing
Fast fashion might come with a hidden danger: lead. Researchers testing children’s shirts from multiple retailers found every sample exceeded U.S. safety limits, raising concerns about toxic exposure—especially since young kids often chew on clothing. Brightly colored fabrics like red and yellow showed particularly high levels, likely due to chemicals used to fix dyes. Simulations suggest that even brief mouthing could expose children to unsafe amounts of lead, a substance known to harm bra…

No! No no brain, no brain. no brain. Toot toot toot toot [unintelligible] like-like-like-like YeAH toot. boost. toot. boost. toot. toot toot toot toot like-like-like-like mastodon no brain. mastodon no brain. boost-toot-boost-toot. never! never! never! brain. boost toot boost toot. Never think!
https://

🧠 Bioengineered neuronal 'circuit board' mimics conditions of the human brain
#brain

Bioengineered neuronal 'circuit board' mimics conditions of the human brain
A new bioengineered neuronal circuit board "BioConNet" allows scientists to artificially engineer human brain-like wiring at scale and can be used to engineer any possible circuit. The fully programmable, open-source system allows generation of large-scale circuits, while maintaining the ability to focus on single connections between neurons.

A brain implant for depression is about to be tested in humans #BCI

A Brain Implant for Depression Is About to Be Tested in Humans
While many brain-computer interface companies are focused on helping paralyzed people communicate, Motif Neurotech is targeting mental health disorders.

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

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Flea:
🎵 Maggot Brain
#NowPlaying #Flea
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://officialflea.bandcamp.com/track/maggot-brain
https://open.spotify.com/track/3poJZBl2yoeWbMMxX63YcE

It probably says a lot about how my brain works that last night, I overheard a commercial featuring "I Saw the Sun" by Ace of Base, and immediately of Roger from American Dad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsrrf7P8Y_E

Triple Configuration of Brain Networks Based on Recurrent Neural Networks: The Synergistic Effects of Exogenous Stimuli, Task Demands, and Spontaneous Activity
Binghao Yang, Guangzong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23525 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.23525 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.23525
arXiv:2604.23525v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The foundation of cognitive flexibility and higher-order intelligence lies in the functional structure and activity of brain networks, which can be dynamically configured by both external environments and internal states. However, decoding these dynamics from high-dimensional neural data remains a challenge. In this study, we propose a computational framework using Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with neural dynamic constraints to model source-localized resting-state EEG data from $114$ participants. We aim to clarify the "triple brain network configurations" driven by exogenous and endogenous factors, including external stimuli, information processing tasks, and spontaneous activities. Our model identifies the parietal network as a critical hub supporting these multiple configuration patterns. Furthermore, we reveal that the anterior and posterior parietal regions exhibit distinct functional specializations under different stimulus modalities. By formalizing a triple configuration framework, this work separates latent factors of brain dynamics and underscores the computational significance of parietal regions in orchestrating higher-order intelligence.
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The mature brain and the neuroscience of wisdom https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/best-practices-in-health/202603/the-mature-brain-and-the-neuroscience-of-wisdom by William Haseltine; "A late-maturing bra…

The Mature Brain and the Neuroscience of Wisdom
A late-maturing brain filter in the thalamus prunes noisy sensory inputs over time, helping adults ignore distractions and focus, offering a neural basis for growing wisdom.

💢 MRI scans reveal how the brain processes toxic workplace abuse
#mri

MRI scans reveal how the brain processes toxic workplace abuse
What happens in the brain when someone witnesses toxic behavior in the workplace? Researchers at Rutgers Business School, in a first-time collaboration with the Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute, used an MRI scanner to find out.

Would getting a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision be worth it? #BCI

The “neural fingerprint” of psychedelics was spotted among hundreds of brain scans of people on LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ayahuasca,
pointing to a shared impact on the brain’s behaviour.
The finding emerged from a major study that combined 11 brain imaging datasets from around the world
in an effort to build a reliable picture of how the substances temporarily rewire the brain.
Dr Danilo Bzdok and his colleagues analysed more than 500 brain scans from 267 p…

Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an "early sign" of generalization, surprising researchers (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/202…

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught | TechCrunch
The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

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'`,…

If you compare the challenges that a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision still has to overcome with the challenges for The vOICe (sound-guided mental imagery)... https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Supporting independent and open science

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

A geometry aware framework enhances noninvasive mapping of whole human brain dynamics
Song Wang, Kexin Lou, Chen Wei, Zhiyuan Sheng, Jiahao Tang, Kaining Peng, Xinke Shen, Shuhao Mei, Liang Chen, Dongfeng Gu, Quanying Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25592 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.25592 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.25592
arXiv:2604.25592v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Non-invasive electrophysiology lacks methods that accurately reconstruct whole-brain spatiotemporal dynamics while incorporating individual cortical geometry, leaving current electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography source imaging limited by simplistic or biologically implausible priors. Here, we show that embedding participant-specific Geometric Basis Functions (GBFs), eigenmodes derived from each individual's cortical surface, provides a powerful anatomic constraint that resolves the inverse problem and improves reconstruction fidelity. The method reconstructs neural sources as linear combinations of geometric basis functions, thereby aligning source estimates with the geometric organization of neural dynamics. We validate GBF across the Meta-Source Benchmark, task-evoked data, resting-state networks, intracranial stimulation, and epilepsy data. The results demonstrate that GBF yields high localization accuracy and captures fast spatiotemporal dynamics consistent with anatomical pathways. These findings suggest that both spontaneous and evoked whole-brain activity can be described by hundreds of geometric modes, providing a compact yet accurate representation of neural sources. By linking cortical geometry to electrophysiological dynamics, GBF offers a versatile source imaging tool for both scientific and clinical applications.
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multi-trillion dollar company showing off their multi-trillion dollar PhD-level galaxy brain technology

Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/bci-startu…

Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch | TechCrunch
This is the largest early-stage funding in China’s brain computer interface industry.

Microplastics may be quietly damaging your brain and fueling Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s #health

Microplastics may be quietly damaging your brain and fueling Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Tiny plastic particles may be quietly threatening brain health. New research suggests microplastics—now widely found in food, water, and even household dust—could trigger inflammation and damage in the brain through multiple biological pathways. Scientists estimate adults may consume about 250 grams of these particles each year, and some can accumulate in organs including the brain.

Seeing with the Brain (not the eyes) #LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) over visual cortex for a visual prosthesis.

Seeing with the Brain - Eye & Ear Foundation of Pittsburgh
Xing Chen, PhD, James Herman, PhD, and J. Patrick Mayo, PhD, shared their expert insights in the Eye & Ear Foundation’s March 10th webinar, “Seeing with the Brain.” First up [...]Read More... from Seeing with the Brain

Revision Implant lands oversubscribed €4M round to take brain-powered sight implant into the clinic https://bmmagazine.co.uk/get-funded/revision-implant-4m-funding-brain-visual-prosthesis/ Brain implant for restoring vision to the blind;

Revision Implant lands oversubscribed €4m round to take brain-powered sight implant into the clinic
Belgian neurotech ReVision Implant secures an oversubscribed €4m round to bring cortical visual prosthesis manufacturing in-house ahead of first-in-human trials in Q3 2026.

How Kosovo's tech industry, driven by local companies like business outsource provider SPEEEX, is helping cut youth unemployment and changing Pristina's skyline (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/…

Trying to draft a kind of "graphical abstract" on visual prosthesis BCI options... brain implants with electrodes, ultrasound with optogenetics or nanoparticles, and noninvasive visual-to-auditory sensory substitution. Suggestions for improvement? #neuroscience

It's not that The vOICe vision BCI is so good, it's that invasive BCIs for (restoring) vision are far worse than often claimed. The human brain is not plug-and-play. https://chatgpt.com/share/69f448a9-de04-83eb-9720-98a2f66ca7e5

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)
https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and rewarding token consumption as a proxy for performance—people are finding themselves pushed to their cognitive limits. Participants in a recent study described a “buzzing” feeling or a mental fog with difficulty focusing, slower decision-making, and headaches. The authors call this phenomenon “AI brain fry,” defined as mental fatigue from excessive use or oversight…

Paradromics blog post on intracortical BCIs vs. ECoG (electrocorticography) https://www.paradromics.com/blog/intracortical-versus-ecog-bci-modalities Note that for restoring vision, intracortical BCIs do not necessarily offer better performance than noninvasive…

Intracortical vs. ECoG | When going deeper pays off
Intracortical vs. ECoG: Discover why implant depth is the key determinant of BCI modality performance and why intracortical devices deliver richer neural signals, larger vocabularies, and superior outcomes for high-functioning brain-computer interfaces.

How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices (Shalini Ramachandran/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/youtube-…

US company Paradromics on brain-computer interfaces: China's recent developments and what they mean for the US https://www.paradromics.com/blog/china-bci-developments Seems at odds with how the US administration keeps eroding the scientific ecosystem in the US;

Brain-Computer Interfaces | China's recent developments and what they mean for the U.S.
China's first commercially approved BCI made headlines. Here's what U.S. investors and policymakers need to know about the real state of the BCI race.

By linking up visual and auditory processing in the human brain, The vOICe vision BCI can act as both a fully noninvasive visual prosthesis for the totally blind and as a research vehicle for macroscopic neuroscience https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

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

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake https://theconversation.com/how-psychedelics-push-your-brain-to-dream-while-awake-new-study-276708 Now how to nudge the brain of blind people to see through sound-guided mental image…

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake – new study
How psychedelics induce intense visuals.

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-psychedelics-brain.html "psychedelics make the brain more likely to 'see' images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it"; mental imagery

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake: New study
A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to "see" images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it.

Brain rewires to stabilize walking during visual impairment https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-rewires-sensorimotor-walking-blindness-30721/
Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study on the effects of visual status on walking-relate…

Brain Rewires to Stabilize Walking During Visual Impairment - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

Lucid dreaming shows that the human brain can go into a state of vivid mental imagery. If and once we can effectively tap into that, sound-guided mental imagery will restore veridical vision to the blind https://www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm

The science behind The vOICe vision BCI
Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe.

(YouTube) China's government-backed BCI push could bring brain-computer tech to the masses within 3 to 5 years #BCI

Designing implants that don't scar the brain https://neurosciencenews.com/flexible-brain-implants-polyimide-biocompatibility-30538/ "Surprisingly, making probes 'ultra-thin' or allowing them to 'float' wirelessly didn't…

Designing Implants that Don't Scar the Brain - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks (in mice) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10426-6 "communication between distant brain regions that is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes";

Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks - Nature
Communication between distant brain regions is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes.

AI at Meta: TRIBE v2 (Trimodal Brain Encoder), an #AI model of the human #brain, predicting neural responses to sight, sound and language https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/

Brain-computer interfaces in healthcare: building the picks and shovels company while the giants fight over gold #BCI

Brain-Computer Interfaces in Healthcare: Building the Picks and Shovels Company While the Giants Fight Over Gold
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Convicted Harvard scientist rebuilds career in China through controversial brain-computer interface lab https://thedebrief.org/convicted-harvard-scientist-rebuilds-career-in-china-through-controversial-brain-computer-i…

Convicted Harvard Scientist Rebuilds Career in China Through Controversial Brain-Computer Interface Lab
Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.

Why brain implants are more than a sci-fi fantasy #BCI

Why brain implants are more than a sci-fi fantasy
Researchers have been working for decades on brain-computer interfaces to help those suffering from paralysis, blindness and hearing loss.

Low-level "visual" perception with visual-to-auditory sensory substitution is at least on par with brain implants for restoring vision. It's the higher-level visual perception where there remain many open questions. Much more scientific effort should go into that. #BCI #blindness

Brain-wide distributed processing underlying natural vision and audition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.26.727967v1 "prefrontal cortex coordinated brain dynamics through synergistic interactions independently of sensory modality and previous sensory e…

Seeing and imagining are handled by the same brain cells https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/05/12/seeing-and-imagining-are-handled-by-the-same-brain-cells/
"Researchers make advances in understanding how human brains ar…

To ChatGPT: Elon Musk focuses on scalable technologies, also for the upcoming Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind. At some point these implants will start to fail in patients. Will Neuralink's handling of failing brain implants prove scalable? https://chatgpt.com/share/69c85655-c24

ChatGPT - Neuralink Scalability Challenges
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Article on the ReVision Implant brain implant originating from China (WeChat): WeChat #BCI #NeuroTech

Milestone: Flexible Electrodes Implanted in Cerebral Cortex Offer Glimmer of Hope for Restoring Sight to the Blind; Brain - Computer Interface Gets FDA Breakthrough Device Designation
Recently, ReVision Implant, an innovative Belgian brain - computer interface firm, declared that its core product, the Occular visual reconstruction brain - computer interface, got the "Breakthrough Device Designation" from the US FDA.

Max Hodak's Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/max-hodaks-science-corp-is-preparing-to-place-its-first-sensor-in-a-human-brain/ biohybrid

Max Hodak’s Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain | TechCrunch
Human trials on the hybrid sensor are expected to begin in the years ahead.

Brain implants for restoring vision to the blind need to stimulate large numbers of neurons with electrodes, many times per second. So... https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/what-happens-to-blood-flow-when-you The stimulation paradox: Activating neurons starves them of…

⚡ The Stimulation Paradox: Activating Neurons Starves Them of Oxygen
Why BCIs Fail Series: Post 14

The vOICe vision BCI app for Android crossed the 600,000 cumulative installs mark from Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe Compare this to the number of Neuralink Blindsight brain implants in humans to date (spoiler: zero).

#Paradromics: From brain implants to neuroprosthetics | Making sense of brain-computer interface terminology https://www.paradromics.com/insights/from-brain-implants-to-neuropr…

Vision restoration: From prostheses to genetic-based brain-machine interfaces https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/handbook/abs/pii/B9780443222122000173 "Classically, visual prostheses were made of electrode arrays", in Handbook of …