Neuroscience Nuggets: This Week's Top Neuroscience News Articles - August 27, 2023 - Neuroscience News

Summary: This week in neuroscience, groundbreaking discoveries include decoding complex life oscillations, enhancing memory with visual symbols, neural mapping of C. elegans worm, potential solutions for age-related hearing loss, and a revolutionary brain-computer interface that restores communication for paralyzed individuals.

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8/23/2023

How artificial intelligence gave a paralyzed woman her voice back

Researchers at Stanford University have successfully used an intracortical brain-computer interface (iBCI) combined with artificial intelligence to help a paralyzed woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) regain the ability to communicate by converting her brain signals into words on a computer screen, marking a significant advancement in restoring rapid communication for nonverbal individuals.

9/11/2023

Paralyzed Woman Can Now Communicate with AI Brain Implant After Over 20 Years of Silence

A stroke survivor who had been left paralyzed and unable to speak for nearly 20 years has regained her ability to communicate with the help of an AI-driven brain implant that decodes brain signals and converts them into computerized speech.

9/20/2023

Elon Musk's Neuralink to Test Brain Chips on Humans with Disabilities, Allow Thought Control of Devices

Elon Musk's Neuralink is recruiting candidates for its first human clinical trials to test their brain chips on individuals with quadriplegia due to spinal cord injuries or ALS, aiming to grant them the ability to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone.

9/21/2023

Elon Musk's Neuralink Aims to Implant Brain Chips to Improve Human-AI Communication, Despite Animal Cruelty Concerns

Elon Musk believes that Neuralink's brain implants could help protect humanity from the risks of artificial intelligence by improving human-computer interaction and communication.

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Posted 8/27/2023, 6:22:20 PM