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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.

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

Coherence Neuro, which is developing AI models and brain implants to help combat brain tumors, raised a $45M seed from the OpenAI Startup Fund and Founders Fund (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-startup-brain-implants-detect-cancer/

OpenAI Invests in Startup That Uses Brain Implants to Detect Cancer
It’s the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.

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.

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.

Every time somebody posts about modafinil my brain tries to correct it to "modanifil" and assumes it's a recreational vasodilator along the lines of sildenafil and tadalafil

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

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.

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.

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.

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…

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

When we encounter something that promises enjoyment or discovery, the brain’s reward system becomes active.
One important pathway runs from the ventral tegmental area,
a dopamine-producing region in the midbrain involved in motivation,
to the nucleus accumbens, a structure that helps generate feelings of reward.
Dopamine is often described as a pleasure chemical, but that is too simple.
One of its key roles is helping the brain identify opportunities worth pursu…

Why you keep buying books you don’t read – and why it feels so good
Why a pile of unread books is not stressful, yet a pile of unread emails is.

Your brain runs on 20 watts of power. Could brain-inspired computing do the same?
https://theconversation.com/your-brain-runs-on-20-watts-could-brain-inspired-computing-do-the-same-292048?ref=refind&…

Your brain runs on 20 watts. Could brain-inspired computing do the same?
Neuromorphic technology is reimagining how computers should work.

Computers Made of Human Brain Tissue Identify Braille Letters In Breakthrough https://www.404media.co/computers-made-of-human-brain-tissue-identify-braille-letters-in-breakthrough/

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…

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

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…

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain
https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650

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…

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.

Neuralink manufacturing: why more implants require more than a bigger factory https://tesorb.com/neuralink-production-scaling-brain-implant-manufacturing/ Contributing to the Neuralink Blindsight clinical trial delays? ISO 13485:2016,

Neuralink Manufacturing: Scaling Beyond the Prototype
Scaling brain implants requires repeatable manufacturing, clinical evidence and care capacity. Examine the milestones that factory announcements cannot prove.

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

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

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/

Coming up on Wednesday October 28 at the "The Brain and The Chip 2026" congress: presentation by Daniel Adams of Neuralink, "Translating intracortical interfaces for motor and sensory restoration" (PDF) https://thebrainandthechip.umh.es/file

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? 

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

Brain Surgery by Autonomous Robot? It’s Possible — and Could Save Lives
UCSB Mechanical Engineer and UCSD Collaborators Are Working to Bring Soft Robotics to Cardiovascular Surgery
https://www.independent.com/2026/10/16/brain-s…

Brain Surgery by Autonomous Robot? It’s Possible — and Could Save Lives
UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer Elliot Hawkes and UCSD collaborators are working to bring soft robotics to cardiovascular surgery.

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

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:

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

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.…

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

RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/117313795286653452
Mindtrix Technology (Mingshi Brain-Computer Technology), the Chinese company that is developing a brain implant for restoring vision to the blind, now has a flashy website of its own at

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

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.

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

An enzyme found in the brain could help to preserve cognitive resilience with advancing age, according to research in mice, humans and cells1.
Researchers found that high levels of the enzyme are linked to low levels of inflammation in the brains of aged mice.
They also showed that the enzyme boosts the growth of neurons in ageing brains. The findings were reported on 15 October in Nature Neuroscience.
The enzyme seems to act “as a compensatory cognitive-resilience mechanism…

Memory stays strong in old age when this brain enzyme is active
Data from mouse brains and 13 human brains show a link between levels of a lipid-degrading enzyme and cognitive resilience.

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.

Paradromics and Siemens Healthineers launch strategic initiative to build advanced imaging foundation for the future of brain-computer interfaces https://paradromics.com/news/paradromi

Paradromics and Siemens Healthineers Launch Strategic Initiative to Build Advanced Imaging Foundation for the Future of Brain-Computer Interfaces
Paradromics & Siemens are building a multimodal imaging workflow to guide implantable BCIs from patient assessment to long-term outcomes.

Just two years after Donald Trump won Kansas by 16 points in his fight to regain the White House,
Republicans in the state are scrambling to retain their dominance.
The battle for one of its two seats in the US Senate is too close to call,
setting the stage for a potentially extraordinary upset.
Some recent polls even put Democrat 🔸Adam Hamilton on course for a historic victory.
Kansans have not sent a representative of the party to the US Senate since 1932.

Kansas Democrat’s pitch to voters amid historic Senate bid: ‘I’m gonna just fight like hell’
Kansas has not sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932 – does Adam Hamilton have the courage, brain and heart to cause an extraordinary upset?

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/

A new clinical tool called the
Brain Care Score
is giving researchers and patients a measurable, actionable framework for reducing the risk of dementia
— even among those with a strong family history of the disease.
Neurologist Dr. Jonathan Rosand,
a leading figure in brain health research,
has been at the forefront of developing and promoting this scoring system, which translates complex neuroscience into everyday lifestyle guidance.
The tool repr…

Dr. Jonathan Rosand’s Brain Care Score Offers New Hope for Those With Family History of Dementia
A new clinical tool called the Brain Care Score is giving researchers and patients a measurable, actionable framework for reducing the risk of dementia — even amo…

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.

It looks like brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will need AI scene description to become practical/useful/functional while giving phosphenes (to late-blind) mostly for the visual experience with light perception. #hybrid #BCI #AI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Beta Voids:
🎵 Brain Malfunction
#BetaVoids
https://betavoids.bandcamp.com/track/brain-malfunction

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

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.

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…

The white paper (living document) on brain implants and sensory substitution for vision at https://www.artificialvision.com/BCI.html is not peer-reviewed, but as a kind of check-list it will likely inspire and guide many future peer-reviewed scientific papers.

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

If the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant will not be MRI-compatible, that will preclude not only MRI scans for medical examinations but also follow-up fMRI monitoring of visual cortex health and adaptation https://www.artificialvision.com/BCI.html#MRI_compatible

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.

Scientific findings like these make it extremely unlikely that a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant can in the foreseeable future deliver anything resembling normal (but low resolution, grayscale, tunnel) vision, no matter what Elon Musk promises https://www.artificialvision.com/BCI.html

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

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.

All attempts at visual prostheses, invasive as well as noninvasive, are still struggling to get the human brain to process prosthetic stimuli as meaningful and intuitive "vision" that is comparable to, say, regular low vision. Neural Code vs Da Vinci Code?

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...

(Spanish) La Universidad Miguel Hernšndez convertirš a España en la capital mundial de la Neurotecnología con el Congreso "The Brain and The Chip 2026" https://www.informacion.es/elche/2026/10/21/universidad-miguel-hernandez-conve…

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.

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

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…

Neuralink manufacturing: why more implants require more than a bigger factory https://tesorb.com/neuralink-production-scaling-brain-implant-manufacturing/ Contributing to the Neuralink Blindsight clinical trial delays? ISO 13485:2016,

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

Will you believe Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight first human brain implant PR, once presented? https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/elon-flying-car-empty-shell

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

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.

One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/the-psychedelic-brain-looks-like-chaos-underneath-theres-order/ "connections within each brain network weakened, conn…

One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.

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

Why phosphenes are not always dots: modeling the shapes elicited by intracortical stimulation of human V1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.18.759925v1 96 electrode Utah array, brain implant, visual cortex, pulse2percept,

Why phosphenes are not always dots: modeling the shapes elicited by intracortical stimulation of human V1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.18.759925v1 96 electrode Utah array, brain implant, visual cortex, pulse2percept,

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…

(Review) Applications of functional ultrasound brain-computer interfaces in neurological diseases: research progress based on neurovascular coupling https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1946753/full &quo…

Frontiers | Applications of functional ultrasound brain-computer interfaces in neurological diseases: research progress based on neurovascular coupling
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) bypass peripheral nerves and muscles to establish direct information pathways between the brain and external devices, provid...

We see with our brain, not our eyes: Seeing through the tongue https://drtraster.substack.com/p/we-see-with-our-brain-not-our-eyes "How Paul Bach-y-Rita's research revealed the brain's ability to interpret visual information through touch."

We See With Our Brain, Not Our Eyes: Seeing Through the Tongue
How Paul Bach-y-Rita’s research revealed the brain’s ability to interpret visual information through touch.

(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.

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…

If the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant will not be MRI-compatible, that will preclude not only MRI scans for medical examinations but also follow-up fMRI monitoring of visual cortex health and adaptation https://www.artificialvision.com/BCI.html#MRI_compatible

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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The white paper (living document) on brain implants and sensory substitution for vision at https://www.artificialvision.com/BCI.html is not peer-reviewed, but as a kind of check-list it will likely inspire and guide many future peer-reviewed scientific papers.

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

The use of auditory cues with the ICVP implicitly makes a strong case for using brain implants for vision in combination with The vOICe vision BCI for general veridical feedback on what is being perceived ("seen") with the implant, at least during visual rehabilitation training.

Wondering how to best get the message across that it is really worth studying sound-guided mental imagery above and beyond brain implants for restoring vision to the blind. 🤔 Unless you are solely dreaming of a big money gold rush, that is. #academic #research

Wondering how to best get the message across that it is really worth studying sound-guided mental imagery above and beyond brain implants for restoring vision to the blind. 🤔 Unless you are solely dreaming of a big money gold rush, that is. #academic #research

#Paradromics on brain vision https://paradromics.com/platform/#brain-vision "Send visual information directly to the brain to restore sight and potentially enable new forms of vision, from e…

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Modular brain-computer interface platform. Biocompatible, scalable architecture for communication, motor control, and neurological disorders.

Turns out that ChatGPT could not access the white paper on The vOICe vision BCI and brain implants for restoring vision at https://www.seeingwithsound.com/BCI.html The problem is fixed now.

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.

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.

[mostly AI generated, but valid] Neuralink's Blindsight deadline has passed, a fake 'blind cat' story filled the gap, and Huberman says writing to the brain is the hard part https://aishiftnews.ca/new…

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.

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