(Review article) Neural mechanisms underlying intracortical microstimulation for sensory restoration www.nature.com/articles/s41... (full version at pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...) by @bioniclab.bsky.social et al.; outlining priority areas for improvement; #invasive #BCI #NeuroTech

Neural mechanisms underlying intracortical microstimulation for sensory restoration - Nature Biomedical Engineering

Intracortical microstimulation can elicit artificial sensations in persons who have lost sensation due to neurological injury or disease. This Review discusses intracortical microstimulation mechanism...

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai@bioniclab.bsky.social · last mo.

⚡ A brain implant delivers a microsecond pulse to cortex, and the textbook answer is that the neuron fires. The biology turns out to be far richer, which matters for every patient feeling through a prosthetic hand, suppressing a seizure, or treating depression by stimulation.

Our latest paper is now published! We show that different end-goals during the demi-plié lead to distinct lower-limb and pelvic coordination patterns, highlighting the adaptability of human movement. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Biomechanics #Neuroskyence #Ballet #CoordinationPattern

Coordination patterns of the lower limb and pelvic complex during the demi-plié movement with different end-goals in classical ballet

Demi-plié is a coordinated ballet movement involving a continuous bend of the knee while maintaining turnout and grounded heels. Twelve classical dancers (9 females, 3 males) performed the demi-pli...

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Today, 7 years ago.

The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺@seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 7y ago

(video) Great video clip showing congenitally blind Islam Barotov learning to see with The vOICe smart glasses, navigating around planters hands-free while looking down to track these street obstacles https://vk.com/voicevision?w=wall-96731906_419%2Fa1a61de0397aa8e959 via...

😴Sleep may be one of the most underrated tools for body composition. A classic study found that people on the same calorie-restricted diet lost similar weight: 8.5h of sleep lost more fat; 5.5h of sleep lost more muscle. Recovery isn’t optional. It’s part of the strategy.💪🧠 #neuroskyence #sleep

🧠 New evidence strengthens the gut–brain axis in multiple sclerosis. Researchers studying identical twins found specific gut bacteria linked to #MS and showed they can trigger MS-like disease in animal models. A major step toward understanding risk, prevention, and future therapies. #Neuroskyence

Attention maps reveal stimulus-dependent retinal population codes www.frontiersin.org/journals/com... "Precise decoding models" [...] "aid in the design of visual prostheses and brain-computer interfaces"

Frontiers | Attention maps reveal stimulus-dependent retinal population codes

IntroductionUnderstanding how deep learning models map neural population activity to stimuli requires both high predictive accuracy and interpretable interna...

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#Anxiety: review outlines how intricate #braincircuits - from the amygdala and BNST to the lateral habenula - coordinate anxiety-like behaviors. It maps layered #neuralcontrol and offers insights for precision-targeted #treatments. #Neuroskyence #Medsky #Neuro #Behavior

Virginia Helena@v-helena.bsky.social · last yr.

#Anxiety: review outlines how intricate #braincircuits - from the amygdala and BNST to the lateral habenula - coordinate anxiety-like behaviors. It maps layered #neuralcontrol and offers insights for precision-targeted #treatments. #Neuroskyence #Medsky #Neuro #Behavior

Meta deletes face-recognition system from its smart glasses app after WIRED report www.wired.com/story/meta-r... (archived at archive.ph/V3vJd)

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

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A glimpse of the future of regenerative medicine: the world’s first 3D-bioprinted #cornea has #restoredvision in a #blind patient. If scalable, this could help address the global shortage of donor corneas and transform care for millions. 👁️🧬 #Neuroskyence #Science #Medicine

Precise Bio Achieves World’s First 3D-Bio-Printed Corneal Implant

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Firsthand experience with The vOICe, a #sensorysubstitutiontechnology that translates live camera images into soundscapes, allowing users to perceive aspects of the visual world through hearing. it raises profound questions about #neuroplasticity, #perception, and #learning. And it’s FREE!

Perceptions of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (VASS) technology among students with visual impairments and special educators journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "applies The vOICe algorithm to convert visual images into auditory input"; #ETRI #V2A #VASS #BCI #blindness

Yesterday I tested The vOICe, a technology that lets visual information be perceived through sound, with the brain’s capacity to adapt, learn, and build new ways of interacting with the world. Innovation is framed around hardware, software, and algorithms, but in the end, it is about people.

Review article: Restoring vision and touch with cortical microstimulation www.nature.com/articles/s44... by @giacomovalle.bsky.social et al.; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

Restoring vision and touch with cortical microstimulation - Nature Reviews Bioengineering

Cortical sensory prostheses aim to restore vision and touch by stimulating primary visual and somatosensory cortices. This Review examines shared challenges and principles underlying visual and somato...

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Lucid dreaming shows that the human brain can go into a state of vivid mental imagery. If and once we can effectively tap into that, sound-guided mental imagery will restore veridical vision to the blind www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm #future #neuroscience

The science behind The vOICe vision BCI

Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe.

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Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans www.nature.com/articles/s41... Might thalamic and other oscillations also determine if experiences appear visual or from another sensory modality? Looking for brain state control for sensory substitution. #BCI

Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans - Nature Human Behaviour

Chowdhury et al. report the discovery of a 19–45-Hz thalamic oscillation that is present during human wakefulness and REM sleep, but not NREM sleep.

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Modern #neuroscience is becoming less about “the #brain records reality” and more about “the brain predicts reality.” #Psychedelicresearch is accelerating that shift, revealing #consciousness as an active construction shaped by #memory, expectation, and #neuralfiltering. 🧠✨ #neuroskyence #thalamus

Your Brain Restricts Full Access to Reality. But Scientists Found a Way to Turn Off the Filter.

Could psychedelics be the key to unlocking higher consciousness?

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#Denmark understood something many societies still ignore: #empathy is not “soft.” It’s #neuroplasticity in action. #Children who learn emotional regulation, perspective-taking, and collaboration grow into adults who build healthier communities, workplaces, and relationships. Kindness is trainable.

#AI should augment #clinicalreasoning, not replace its development. Expertise is built through uncertainty, mistakes, comparison, supervision, and cognitive effort. If trainees rely on AI too early, we may not be “de-skilling” #medicine… but never fully building the #skill at all. 🧠 #AI #medicine

Handwriting isn’t just “slower typing.” EEG studies show writing by hand recruits broader sensorimotor, visual, memory, and attentional networks than typing the same words. The brain learns through movement too, not only through information. 🧠✍️ #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #EEG #words

A brain implant for depression is about to be tested in humans www.wired.com/story/a-brai... by @emilymullin.bsky.social; #BCI #NeuroTech

A Brain Implant for Depression Is About to Be Tested in Humans

While many brain-computer interface companies are focused on helping paralyzed people communicate, Motif Neurotech is targeting mental health disorders.

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Blind mice detected infrared light after scientists implanted an artificial retina www.zmescience.com/science/news... "The device may one day restore sight while adding a new visual channel."

Blind Mice Detected Infrared Light After Scientists Implanted an Artificial Retina

The device may one day restore sight while adding a new visual channel.

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Same content. Different scroll. Different brains. At the g.tec BR41N.IO #Hackathon, our #EEG data suggested horizontal carousel formats synchronize viewers’ brains more, while vertical scrolling may create more individual processing paths. Tiny interface choices matter. #neuroskyence #neuromarketing

Neuroplasticity weekend reminder 🧠✨ Your brain is always adapting to what you repeat. Every thought, action, and habit shapes it. This weekend, be intentional: move, rest, and focus with purpose. Change isn’t one big moment, it’s built through repetition. Your brain is always listening. #neuro

People are the most significant entities in the cosmic scheme of things. They are not "supported" by their environments, but support themselves by creating knowledge. Once they have knowledge (essentially, the knowledge of the Enlightenment), they are capable of sparkling unlimited further progress.

Exclusive: Journal to retract Alzheimer's study after investigation finds misconduct. It’s the author’s second retractd paper. The other one was in 2017. #Alzheimers #Neurosky #neuroscience #treatment #braindegeneration retractionwatch.com/2025/10/20/e...

Exclusive: Journal to retract Alzheimer’s study after investigation finds misconduct

A journal says it will retract a 2019 paper on an Alzheimer’s treatment after an institutional investigation found research misconduct, according to emails seen by Retraction Watch. The move …

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Early Exposure to Anesthesia May Shift Brain Development 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @northeasternu.bsky.social

Early Exposure to Anesthesia May Shift Brain Development - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

MCB researchers show GABA-based sedation in newborns speeds up brain development, confirming decades of animal research in a human cohort. A new longitudinal study led by MCB’s Takao […]

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A new study adds evidence to the idea of the behavioral immune system, showing that participants respond to infectious avatars by turning on threat-detecting brain areas and priming an immune response to a potential infection. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence bit.ly/4o5Hi9z

Human brain may anticipate looming contagion

Seeing a visibly ill avatar in virtual reality activates a neuroimmune pathway in brain areas related to peripersonal space and prompts an immune response, a small new study suggests.

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#Inception: Simulating personalized long-term recovery in disorders of consciousness using whole-brain computational perturbations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Two #FDA‑approved cancer drugs—letrozole and irinotecan—were shown to reverse #Alzheimer’s in mice, including restoring learning and memory abilities. It could fast-track #humantrials. A potential game‑changer in how we think about #neurodegeneration. #neuroskyence #medsky #neuro

Breakthrough as two FDA-approved drugs are found to reverse Alzheimer’s — including restoring memory

Researchers have found that a pair of drugs can not only slow down Alzheimer’s disease but actually reverse it and restore memory in mice.

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Paralyzed walking, reimagined. 🦿🧠 A groundbreaking bidirectional #BCI now enables real-time control of a walking #exoskeleton and sends sensory feedback to both legs—using #brainsignals from leg motor areas. All via a portable implantable system. #Neuroskyence #Medsky #Neurotech #BCI #Exoskeleton

Real-Time Brain-Computer Interface Control of Walking Exoskeleton with Bilateral Sensory Feedback

Invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) technology has demonstrated the possibility of restoring brain-controlled walking in paraplegic spinal cord injury patients. However, current implementations of...

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