Brain implants offer incredible promise for treating medical conditions and restoring lost senses, but the rigid materials ...

When a rigid silicon electrode is pushed into the brain, the organ treats it like a splinter. Immune cells swarm the foreign ...

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have taken another page right out of a science fiction novel. This time, by designing and building microscopic, ...

A new study provides a "guidebook" for brain implants, proving that flexible polyimide materials significantly reduce brain ...

"[I’m] thinking about moving my fingers, which I haven't been able to do in nine years...," Brandon Patterson said after the ...

Aurora surgeons implanted a BCI in higher brain regions. The patient reported feeling fingers move after surgery.

For people with near-total paralysis, the ability to communicate easily in real time is a challenge. For years, scientists have been working to remedy that by developing devices that can decode brain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new brain device from Northwestern University is asking a daring question: what if information could reach your brain without ...

In a world first, China has approved a brain implant for commercial use in people with spinal cord injuries. The device is a type of brain-computer interface (BCI) and is made by the Shanghai-based ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A BrainGate participant types using a brain implant. (BrainGate Consortium) For people with near-total paralysis, the ability to ...