In a sense, the brain implant allowed the blind woman to “see” simple shapes. By placing an array on the visual cortex, scientists say they were able to stimulate the neurons around it to ...

That information was then encoded and sent to an implant in the volunteer’s visual cortex. The implant, a microelectrode array consisting of 96 electrodes, in turn stimulated neurons to produce ...

Noland Arbaugh has become the first recipient of the Neuralink brain implant, a wireless brain-computer interface that enables users to control devices with their thoughts.

Scientists in Spain have successfully created an implant that allowed a blind patient to see by directly stimulating her brain’s visual cortex.

However, the implant technology currently being explored in human patients is from the 1990s and there are several factors that need to be improved, for example the bulky size, scarring in the ...