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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.

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

Having tinnitus, I found this interesting .
#tinnitus

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'.

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

Brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260624025514.htm
The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that…

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.

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.

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.

"Europe needs stronger enforcement, greater transparency, and more independent scrutiny of industry science. When credible evidence points to risks for children’s neurological development, public health must come before commercial interests."
https://www.

EU-approved pesticide found to have potential effects on brain development
New study on fluazinam’s neurotoxicity comes up with different findings from earlier report based on manufacturer’s data

Yes, I abuse f-strings in python because "print(f'" will always make more sense to my C-poisoned brain than "print('".

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

I've never been a breakfast person. Back when I smoked I was a coffee-and-a-cigarette person, now Im just a coffee and I-hate-everyone-until-this-kicks-in person.
But every now and then Ill get this weird craving for granola in a bowl with milk (GF eats granola every day pretty much).
me: now remember, everytime you get a craving for granola you never finish half of it.
also me: shut up brain I know what Im doing.
me: that's way too much
also me: alr…

A map of the imagined: topographic principles of sensory simulation in the human parietal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.03.742540v1 "visual imagery preferentially manifested in posterior regions, auditory imagery in ventral regions" of le…

A Map of the Imagined: Topographic Principles of Sensory Simulation in the Human Parietal Cortex
The cerebral cortex forms a structured landscape in which the location of brain regions shapes their cognitive functions. Based on this cognitive topography, brain regions are not isolated modules but embedded within a macroscale terrain where both cortical geometry and connectivity jointly shape cognition. If cortical locus does modulate cognition, then even internally generated processes (e.g., imagery) might obey topographical constraints. This predicts a neurofunctional arrangement in which…

Happy 250th, America 🇺🇸
Hopefully this is your awkward, lashing-out-at-all-good-things teenage years and not your the-world-should-burn-because-of-my-brain-worms boomer years.

Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours, study finds - Neurology | UCLA Health
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/drug-reverses-autism-like-brain-changes-adult-mice-within
– via

Millions take omega-3 fish oil for brain health but a new study found no benefit #nutrition

Millions take omega-3 fish oil for brain health but a new study found no benefit
Fish oil supplements successfully delivered omega-3s to the brain, but a two-year study found no meaningful benefits for memory, cognition, or Alzheimer’s-related brain changes. The results challenge the idea that fish oil pills can help prevent Alzheimer’s and shift attention toward overall diet and lifestyle instead.

Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My

Erik Uden on Instagram: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases, written by Sara Reardon, published on the 20th of May 2026. Though, reading this Science article made me think: aren't we the brain? Am I missing something here? Now, of course the devil lies in the detail and the article makes it clear that this startup only restores “some functions”, which is certainly more complex in action than it is in theory written here, but certain language of the article makes me question the author's understanding of what is a human. The article writes: “Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes [...]” What do you mean “it's owner” — isn't the brain it's owner? Isn't that where it's owner is? I mean, certainly the brain had no more activity, the person must've been declared brain dead by all standards before being sent to this startup, still it's odd hearing someone donated their brain instead of saying they've donated... themselves? Also “using a set of proprietary brain-sustaining machines” is a terrible sentence I always thought the people who don't donate their full body to hospitals are religious lunatics, but this is the first time I wrote something on my organ donor card. They can take my brain, but not as one piece."
45K likes, 971 comments - erik.uden on May 21, 2026: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to inta…

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/

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

Thanks to @… I've been playing around with this website. I'm happy to find that my name and handles are most absent. I'm either a "fictional character from the YA novel and film adaptation 'The Spectacular Now'" or a character from Star Trek.

IN THE WEIGHTS
The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI's brain. Type a name and see how strongly the leading AI models recognize it. Are you in the weights?

Brain-Computer-Interface: ALS-Patient nutzt Hirnimplantat 19 Monate lang
Ein ALS-Patient hat ein Brain-Computer-Interface fast zwei Jahre lang täglich zu Hause genutzt. Die Studie liefert wichtige Belege für die Alltagstauglichkeit.

Brain-Computer-Interface: ALS-Patient nutzt Hirnimplantat 19 Monate lang
Ein ALS-Patient hat ein Brain-Computer-Interface fast zwei Jahre lang täglich zu Hause genutzt. Die Studie liefert wichtige Belege für die Alltagstauglichkeit.

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

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

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.

Creativity is so intimate.
You're literally letting us see how your brain works.
Via @… on Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/nasibov.me/post/…

Ramin Nasibov (@nasibov.me)
Creativity is so intimate. You're literally letting us see how your brain works.

💧 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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mark McGuire:
🎵 Brain Storm (For Erin)
#MarkMcGuire
https://editionsmego.bandcamp.com/track/brain-storm-for-erin
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IHvEylNC3bk3EwxxKAnkG

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

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

my brain decided to do this to me for some reason

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…

Wow
https://neurosciencenews.com/culture-empathy-interpersonal-emotion-30963/

Comforting Others Is a Cultural Trait, Not a Universal Instinct - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

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

Auf Anregung von @… habe ich mal versucht, meinen Workflow von #Logseq auf #Orgmode umzubauen.
Der erste Ansatz mit org-roam sah vielversprechend aus. Aber schon nach ku…

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Funkadelic:
🎵 Maggot Brain
#Funkadelic
https://derrok.bandcamp.com/track/gusano-funkadelics-maggot-brain-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WJU527RQNyMLuKecjsL8V

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?

In my head there is a threshold of minimum plausibility. Stories that clear that threshold can be good. Those that don't are tossed out by my brain.
#NilsAllenStewart #SvenOleThorsen
Baywatch Nights 2x12 - Frozen Out Of Time

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

Elon Musk's bandwidth argument for Neuralink has a problem: the brain itself https://glitchwire.com/news/elon-musks-bandwidth-argument-for-neuralink-has-a-problem-the-brain-itself/ The 10 bits per second problem (for decision m…

Elon Musk's Bandwidth Argument for Neuralink Has a Problem: The Brain Itself
Musk's latest X post frames Neuralink as the solution to human cognitive bottlenecks. New neuroscience research suggests the limitation isn't the interface, it's the architecture.

Aldon Smith's brain donated to CTE Center as family's attorneys investigate his death at age 36 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/wcbk/aldon-smiths-brain-donated-to-cte-center-as-familys-attorneys-invest…

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…

I had a weird dream where I was talking to someone at some kind of ceremony, I think a funeral, where I had timidly painted my face with clay as part of some ritual. This person was talking about how far society has come while our brains have not caught up.
Imagine if your ancient cave dwelling ancestors were dropped into this world of cars, office hours, budgets, climate change, and AI. They would be absolutely freaking out and struggling to understand things all the time... Just like you are now.
Society teaches us to suppress these emotions. You're supposed to be OK with giant metal boxes flying around you in rumbling stampedes, but you feel it in unexplained anxiety. You're supposed to just fit your life into tight little bounds that ignore weather and season, but you feel it in more unexplained anxiety and depression. We are all part of something so big and complicated we can't make sense of it, we cannot possibly comprehend it all, it is simply too much to fully grasp the implications of our individual actions within global capitalism. Should we be surprised by our urge to simply destroy it, by the anger and desire to simply "smash" something far more complex than can be met with simple violence?
Some part of my brain was trying to remind me to be compassionate to myself. Perhaps that reminder can be useful to you as well.

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:
——
No Sweets or Seconds, except on days ending in ‘y’.
——
🤣🤦‍♂️
Un-doin…

Every time I see the avatar thumbnail of @… in my timeline, my brain somehow parses it as him wearing a belly-free crop top of some sorts

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.

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 ».

Shanghai-based BCI startup raises RMB330 million in record-setting angel round https://technode.com/2026/08/03/shanghai-based-bci-startup-raises-rmb330-million-in-record-setting-angel-round/ ~$50 million for 主动科技 ("Act…

Shanghai-based BCI startup raises RMB330 million in record-setting angel round · TechNode
Shanghai-based brain-computer interface startup Active Technology (our translation of 主动科技, the company’s Chinese name) has completed a RMB330 million

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"…

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'`,…

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

Inside BCI on #Gestala https://insidebci.com/market/2026-07-03-gestala-china-ultrasound-bci-62m-angel-plus-shanghai-headquarters/

Gestala closes US$62 million Angel+ round for ultrasound BCI, opens Shanghai NeuroAI headquarters
Gestala (格式塔科技), a Chinese non-invasive ultrasound brain-computer interface company led by founder and CEO Phoenix Peng, announced on 3 July 2026 that it had closed a US$62 million Angel+ financing round and formally opened a Shanghai NeuroAI headquarters. The company is the third Chinese ultrasound BCI startup to disclose funding within ten days, alongside Sisen Technology (1 July 2026) and Huachao Shenkong.

New York-based Probook, which is building an AI operating system for home service businesses, raised a $34M Series A led by a16z and a $6M seed led by Sequoia (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/23/excl…

Exclusive: A founder who went from pressure washing to Wharton just raised $40 million to put AI to work for plumbers, electricians, and HVAC crews
Sequoia and a16z are betting Probook will be the AI operating system powering home services.

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

multi-trillion dollar company showing off their multi-trillion dollar PhD-level galaxy brain technology

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.

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.

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.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that
bacteria can learn from past experiences,
store memories across generations
and adapt their behavior to changing environments
all without a brain or nervous system
https://www.cmu.edu…

Bacteria Can Learn and Form Memories Without a Brain
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that bacteria can learn from past experiences, store memories across generations and adapt their behavior to changing environments all without a brain or nervous system.

Brain computer interfaces boot up multipronged legal issues https://www.afslaw.com/perspectives/news/brain-computer-interfaces-boot-multipronged-legal-issues "BCIs may be implantable or noninvasive", "Can neural data ever …

Brain Computer Interfaces Boot Up Multipronged Legal Issues | ArentFox Schiff
Forget science fiction — the race to connect computers directly to the human brain is already underway, and it is accelerating. In recent months, neurotechnology companies have expanded human clinical trials and attracted substantial investment.

🇺🇦 #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

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

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

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.

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'`,…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Gears:
🎵 Teenage Brain
#TheGears
https://thedefog.bandcamp.com/track/fears-for-a-teenage-brain
https://open.spotify.com/track/2nuY8QtC890uJH9fCWuTAm

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. 

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.

#Brain2Qwerty v2: a model to decode natural sentences from non-invasive magnetoencephalography (#MEG) recordings https://facebookresearch.github.io/brain2qwerty/ via @…

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.

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 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.

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…

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

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.

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.

A computer model predicted which human brain implant channels would fail #invasive

Ocular speech tracking persists in blindness, but its dynamics and oculo-cerebral connectivity depend on visual status https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2026/06/23/ENEURO.0041-26.2026 "ocular speech tracking seems to respond selectively to acoustic features o…

Ocular speech tracking persists in blindness, but its dynamics and oculo-cerebral connectivity depend on visual status
While eye movements have been shown to track the speech envelope, it is unknown whether this reflects a hard-wired mechanism or one shaped by (lifetime) audiovisual experience. Further, questions remain about whether ocular tracking is modulated by speech intelligibility and which brain regions drive these synchronized eye movements. Here, we investigate ocular speech tracking in 47 (20 male), blindfolded early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals using magnetoencephalography (MEG) and so…

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…

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

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

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.

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 …

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…

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.

(2021) The Defensive Activation Theory: REM sleep as a mechanism to prevent takeover of the visual cortex https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.632853/full So we should disrupt REM sleep for better masteri…

Frontiers | The Defensive Activation Theory: REM Sleep as a Mechanism to Prevent Takeover of the Visual Cortex
Regions of the brain maintain their territory with continuous activity: if activity slows or stops (e.g., because of blindness), the territory tends to be ta...

The dismantling of US science (funding) by the US administration very likely also negatively impacts new studies based on The vOICe sensory substitution approach, no matter how much more promising it is than the development and use of brain implants for restoring vision.

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

(YouTube, 2023) This seeming "reconstruction" is misleading: not reconstruction but rather neural signal pattern matching with video frame lookup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBZySKWAqA Seeing through the eyes of a mouse by decoding its brain signals.

Relevant for brain implants? Frequency-specific effects of pulsed magnetic field on BV2 microglial cell function https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15368378.2026.2694326 "pulsed magnetic field can effectively regulate microglial phagocytosis, migration,…

Sensory restoration via brain-computer interfaces: A unified 2×2 framework and convergence roadmap https://arxiv.org/html/2606.15091v1
"Community Siloing: Research remains siloed. Teams developing high-density invasive stimulation interfaces rarely collaborate with teams building non-invasive se…

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…

Myelin emerges as an active regulator of brain plasticity, not only a structural insulator https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/myelin-emerges-as-an-active-regulator-of-brain-plasticity-not-only-a-struct…

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 and University of Michigan complete first #Connexus BCI implantation for the FDA-approved Connect-One clinical study

Once you realize that a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision will not be available for at least another decade, consider your other options more seriously.

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, …

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