Chinese start-up firms are supercharging their efforts to develop algorithms for brain–computer interfaces that help people ...

The human brain is remarkably complex, with trillions of connections that control how you move, think and feel.

Science fiction has long imagined a world where our brains interact with machines to restore and augment our abilities — think of the neural implants that connected to Geordi La Forge’s visor in Star ...

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A US company has tested a brain implant in a Chinese patient in Shanghai, a rare sign of cooperation as the two countries compete to develop the most advanced neurotechnology. The Cambridge company, ...

Nearly 3 million Americans suffer from treatment-resistant depression, meaning antidepressants simply don’t work for them. Motif Neurotech wants to change that with a tiny brain implant, and the FDA ...

While many brain-computer interface companies are focused on helping paralyzed people communicate, Motif Neurotech is targeting mental health disorders. The company’s device is implanted in the skull ...

Engineers have printed tiny, artificial neurons that can "talk" to mouse brain cells, and the development could pave the way to innovations in computing and medicine. The work, published April 15 in ...

In a recent publication appearing in Advanced Science, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience challenge the assumptions surrounding the design and materials used for brain implants.

"[I’m] thinking about moving my fingers, which I haven't been able to do in nine years...," Brandon Patterson said after the surgery Kimberlee Speakman is a Writer-Reporter on the News team at PEOPLE, ...

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading edge of science. Patterson, 41, had a brain-computer interface implanted in ...