Posts Tagged ‘brain implants’
Neurotech start-up Paradromics raises $20M to address brain-related disorders via next-gen brain-computer interfaces
Neuralink Competitor Raises $20 Million for Brain Implants (Bloomberg): A competitor to Elon Musk’s Neuralink said it raised $20 million, enough to get it on track to introduce a new generation of powerful and tiny electrodes to the human brain. Paradromics Inc., founded in 2015 about a year ahead of Neuralink, is building brain-computer interfaces that…
Read MoreEthical issues raised around deep brain stimulation (DBS) research
Researchers grapple with the ethics of testing brain implants (Science): “In 2003, neurologist Helen Mayberg of Emory University in Atlanta began to test a bold, experimental treatment for people with severe depression, which involved implanting metal electrodes deep in the brain in a region called area 25. The initial data were promising; eventually, they convinced…
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