Neuralink: Thumbs up or down so far?

By SharpBrains | August 31, 2020

Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink is neu­ro­science the­ater (MIT Tech­nol­o­gy Review): Rock-climb with­out fear. Play a sym­pho­ny in your head. See radar with super­hu­man vision. Dis­cov­er the nature of con­scious­ness. Cure blind­ness, paral­y­sis, deaf­ness, and men­tal ill­ness. Those are just a few of the appli­ca­tions that Elon Musk and employ­ees at his four-year-old neu­ro­science com­pa­ny Neu­ralink believe…

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5 Facts You Need To Know To Understand, Navigate And Enjoy The Digital Brain Health Revolution

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2017

— Hun­dreds of com­pa­nies around the globe, now includ­ing Elon Musk’s Neu­ralink and even Face­book,  are research­ing and devel­op­ing new ways to help brain own­ers be smarter, sharp­er, and health­i­er. What explains this flur­ry of activ­i­ty? Where may it be head­ed? To help you under­stand what’s going on, let me high­light five key facts that emerged…

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By SharpBrains | April 6, 2017

Will we soon have an “annu­al brain check-up”? Under what con­di­tions may spe­cif­ic brain training/ enhance­ment meth­ods work? Is implant­i­ng elec­trodes in one’s brain–as Elon Musk’s new ven­ture just announced–the most promis­ing way to cre­ate a brain-com­put­er inter­face? How can we har­ness neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty to rein­vent edu­ca­tion and men­tal health? Thou­sands of pro­fes­sion­als know that Sharp­Brains’ annual…

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