DARPA-funded nonsurgical neurotechnologies push the frontier of brain-machine interfaces

By SharpBrains | June 9, 2021

Rice Uni­ver­si­ty Charges Into the Future with Mag­net­ics and Bioim­plants (All About Cir­cuits): Advances in self-gen­er­at­ing drug deliv­ery sys­tems, brain-to-brain com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and injury mit­i­ga­tion tech­nolo­gies are just some of the newest research com­ing down the pipeline from Rice Uni­ver­si­ty. Sev­er­al research projects fund­ed by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agen­cy’s (DARPA) N3 pro­gram might herald…

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Study issues warning: Opioid inhibitor naltrexone (often used to treat addictions) can reduce feelings of social connection

By Greater Good Science Center | August 15, 2017

_________ Sci­ence has long known that hav­ing pos­i­tive social con­nec­tion is impor­tant to a hap­py and healthy life. But less is under­stood about how our brains sup­port and encour­age con­nect­ing with oth­ers. While pri­or research has sug­gest­ed oxy­tocin plays a role in nur­tur­ing and trust­ing oth­ers, there­by strength­en­ing social bonds, many researchers also sus­pect that…

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds Neurotechnology Hubs and innovative tools to advance research on Brain & Behavior

By SharpBrains | August 2, 2017

  NSF issues awards to advance a nation­al research infra­struc­ture for neu­ro­science (press release by the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion): “The Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion (NSF) has made 17 Next Gen­er­a­tion Net­works for Neu­ro­science (Neu­roNex) awards to aid the research com­mu­ni­ty as it pur­sues one of its grand­est chal­lenges: under­stand­ing the brain. These projects will sup­port the development…

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Minimizing negative side-effects from electromagnetic neural stimulation: Key neurotechnology patent #39

By SharpBrains | April 7, 2017
neural stimulation system

Today we high­light a 2010 patent by Advanced Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion Sys­tems address­ing a seri­ous con­cern dur­ing the use of elec­tro­mag­net­ic brain stim­u­la­tion methods–where unin­tend­ed stim­u­la­tion of neu­rons can cause seizures or migraine headaches. U.S. Patent No. 7,831,305: Neur­al stim­u­la­tion sys­tem and method respon­sive to col­lat­er­al neur­al activ­i­ty Assignee(s): Advanced Neu­ro­mod­u­la­tion Sys­tems, Inc. Inventor(s): Brad­ford E. Glin­er Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Transcranial…

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Monitoring and stimulating brain activity to achieve desired brain state: Key Neurotech Patent #10

By SharpBrains | February 10, 2017
brain state

Today we are shar­ing a 2002 patent describ­ing a sys­tem link­ing brain sig­nal detec­tion to brain stim­u­la­tion tech­niques. U.S. Patent No. 6,488,617: Method and device for pro­duc­ing a desired brain state Assignee(s): Uni­ver­sal Hedo­nics Inventor(s): Bruce F. Katz Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Hybrid Issue Date: Decem­ber 3, 2002 Sharp­Brains’ Take: The ‘617 patent describes a sys­tem link­ing brain sig­nal detection…

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