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.

Treatment-resistant neurological and psychiatric disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and major depressive disorder, continue to impose a substantial global health burden despite ...

Brain-computer interfaces rely on electrodes to gather enough signal. But the materials and strategies can vary ...

For someone who has lost the ability to speak, a thought can feel trapped with no way out. Research on brain-computer ...

In her lab at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon, speech-language pathologist Melanie Fried-Oken has seen the development of assistive communication devices and brain-computer ...

For seven years, British neuroscientist Luke Bashford trained as a postdoc in the United States, working on brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) — systems that directly link brain activity to external ...

As BCIs move from laboratories towards commercial use, Neurochip.com founder Herbert Sim warns that unequal access could separate people not only by income or connectivity, but by physical and ...

The popular imagination of brain-computer interfaces tends toward the dramatic: a surgeon opening the skull, an electrode array positioned against cortical tissue, a patient gaining capabilities that ...

When a new technology shows promise, performance-wise and commercially, innovation does not stop. To the contrary, it gathers pace. New medical devices typically emerge from competing groups of ...

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