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

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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The latest on Brain Health and Resilience, plus a few fun Brain Teasers

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing fas­ci­nat­ing neu­ro­science find­ings and tips, com­bined with fun brain teasers. #1. To cel­e­brate this quite-chal­leng­ing Thanks­giv­ing, here are five fun brain teasers that read­ers have enjoyed the most this year so far. It is always good to learn more about (and appre­ci­ate) that most pre­cious resource…

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Studies identify key ethical concerns raised by invasive and non-invasive neurotechnologies

Stud­ies out­line key eth­i­cal ques­tions sur­round­ing brain-com­put­er inter­face tech (NCSU release): Brain-com­put­er inter­face (BCI) tech­nolo­gies are no longer hypo­thet­i­cal, yet there are fun­da­men­tal aspects of the tech­nol­o­gy that remain unad­dressed by both ethi­cists and pol­i­­cy-mak­ers. Two new papers address these issues by out­lin­ing the out­stand­ing eth­i­cal issues, offer­ing guid­ance for address­ing those issues, and offering…

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The birth of “everyday” brain-computer interfaces

___ Neurable Rais­es $6 Mil­lion Series A To Build An ‘Every­day’ Brain-Com­put­er Inter­face (Forbes): “Neurable has announced a $6 mil­lion Series A round of fund­ing to move beyond VR appli­ca­tions and devel­op the every­day brain-com­put­er inter­face. These will take a head­phones form fac­tor and will tar­get con­sumers. This marks an excit­ing advance­ment for brain-com­put­er interfaces…

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San Francisco, April 6th: Explore the latest in Pervasive Neurotechnology @ NeuroTechSF

Heads-up: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, our co-founder and the edi­­tor-in-chief of Sharp­Brains’ lat­est mar­ket report, will present Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: The Inno­va­tion Land­scape at Neu­roTech SF 2016, a new indus­try con­fer­ence explor­ing break­throughs in brain mon­i­tor­ing, BCI, neu­ro­feed­back and stim­u­la­tion. –> To Learn More & Reg­is­ter, click HERE (20%-off dis­count code: SB20)

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