Rather than having distinct departments for blindness, paralysis and sensory disorders, scientists are developing a unified ...

Patients with untreatable conditions such as sight loss or loss of motor-function could be closer to a viable technology for restoring their lost sense, within a faster time frame.

A new approach for identifying signs of hidden awareness in people who cannot speak or move after severe brain injury has ...

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies developed independently for 50 years to restore sight and touch are functionally identical, establishing a unified framework that accelerates ...

Over the past several decades, coordinated investment at both central and local levels has propelled China’s research in ...

It might soon be "game over" for the video game controller. Yale researchers have developed a new kind of brain-computer interface (BCI) that lets humans play video games directly with their brains.

A team at UC Davis has made a major leap in neurotechnology, enabling a man with ALS to speak again through a brain-computer interface that converts thoughts into speech in real time. Unlike prior ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ELBERT — To say Brandon Patterson’s father wasn’t fully on board when he first brought up the idea of having electrodes implanted into his brain would be an ...

Charles Lieber leads China's i-BRAIN lab with advanced resources and state funding Lab is recruiting researchers for studies on monkeys as models for human brain-computer interfaces Case highlights ...

As a part of a study testing out a new type of implanted brain-computer interface (BCI), three rhesus monkeys controlled movements in a virtual reality (VR) world using only brain signals. The study, ...