Debate: In the field of neurostimulation, what comes first, Published Research or Patents?

The Brain-Zap­ping Olympians (The Ringer): “Gain­ing jacked-up phys­i­cal pow­ers from frontal-lobe-elec­tri­­fy­ing head­gear sounds like a half-baked super­hero ori­gin sto­ry. It’s also a premise that ath­letes are buy­ing as real­i­ty. NBA play­ers and Olympians are wear­ing a brain-stim­u­la­­tion device called Halo Sport in an attempt to trans­form into champions.

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What’s in it for me: Ten critical questions to navigate media coverage of latest scientific findings

Here at Greater Good, we cov­er research into social and emo­tion­al well-being, and we try to help peo­ple apply find­ings to their per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al lives. We are well aware that our busi­ness is a tricky one. Sum­ma­riz­ing sci­en­tif­ic stud­ies and apply­ing them to people’s lives isn’t just dif­fi­cult for the obvi­ous rea­sons, like 

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