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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Scientists have created a hair-thin implant that can drip medications deep into the brain by remote control and with pinpoint precision. Tested only in animals so far, if the device pans out it could ...

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 ...