Papers

De vraag is niet of technologie met herseninterfaces zich zal doorzetten, maar onder welke voorwaarden, schrijft Mattias Niels. In ziekenhuizen en onderzoekscentra wereldwijd rijpt al sinds de eeuwwisseling een stille medische (r)evolutie. Via Brein-Computer-Interactietechnologie (BCI’s) is het vandaag al mogelijk dat verlamde patiënten opnieuw kunnen communiceren, dat protheses rechtstreeks door hersensignalen worden aangestuurd, en dat de blinde straks waarschijnlijker dan

Monkeys with around 300 electrodes implanted in their brain were able to steer avatars around different virtual environments Monkeys fitted with a brain-computer interface (BCI) successfully navigated a variety of virtual worlds using only their thoughts. Researchers hope the experiments will pave the way for people with paralysis to explore virtual worlds or more intuitively control electric wheelchairs in this one. Read more on: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2522956-

Met behulp van een brein-computer interface, ontwikkeld aan de KU Leuven, zouden mensen met een neurologische aandoening de controle over hun bewegingen en communicatie kunnen terugkrijgen. Beeld: Zonder een spier te bewegen slaagden proefdieren erin een avatar door een virtuele wereld te navigeren. KU Leuven Onderzoekers aan de KU Leuven willen aan de hand van brein-computer interfaces patiënten met een neurologische aandoening de controle teruggeven over hun bewegingen en c

Researchers at KU Leuven have made significant progress in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, potentially offering new hope to patients with neurological disorders. BCIs work by measuring brain signals through electrodes placed either on or inside the brain or on the scalp, converting these signals into computer commands. The ultimate aim is to help individuals regain independence in movement, speech, or other functional abilities. In their study, KU Leuven scientists

CU Anschutz and UCHealth are leading the way in advanced care and research for people with neurological diseases and injuries. Neurosurgery experts with the University of Colorado Anschutz performed Colorado's first implanted brain-computer interface (BCI) surgery at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, marking a significant advance for patients with neurological injury or disease. Commonly known as BCIs, the implanted technology can restore lost motor and sensory functi

Patients benefit from earlier access to technologies that could improve or save lives, as the MHRA approved 17 per cent more clinical investigations in 2025 compared with 2024, and launches measures to support innovation and growth. UK patients could be among the first in the world to benefit from breakthrough medical devices, as clinical investigations reach their highest level on record in 2025. New figures from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)

Blindness and severe vision impairment are set to double in the global population by 2050, it’s a disability that poses extraordinary challenges. But a team of neuroscientists at Miguel Hernandez University in Spain, motivated by the success of cochlear implants for deaf patients, have created a visual neuroprosthesis that interfaces with the visual cortex through an implant, bypassing the eye. They are in effect, creating artificial vision. RAZOR’s Gabrielle Lawrence heads t

A man fitted with a pioneering, computer-controlled brain implant to tackle his Parkinson's disease says it works so well he is sometimes able to forget he has the condition. A small computer inserted into Kevin Hill's chest wall 12 months ago is connected to wires running into the brain which can send electrical signals and an update means it can now read his brain activity. The 65-year-old from Sunderland said it has been so successful he feels like he has "been cured". Sur

Grâce à un implant cérébral et à un maillage de capteurs sur leur prothèse, des chercheurs sont parvenus à restaurer des sensations tactiles proches de la normale chez des sujets paralysés. Le dispositif a été testé sur deux personnes, à l’aide d’un bras bionique contrôlé par leur cerveau. La neurotechnologie pour réparer le corps avance à grands pas. Des chercheurs, qui appartiennent tous au Cortical Bionics Research Group, aux Etats-Unis, ont réussi à faire ressentir à deux

Advances in brain-computer interfaces enable paralysed users to feel objects in a realistic way via a robotic limb. Read more on: https://www.ft.com/content/47b9a447-ea01-4559-a826-51f54816f577?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Through brain implants, neural interfaces and skin grafts, researchers are starting to restore sensation for paralysed or amputated limbs. Scott Imbrie still remembers the first time that physicians switched on the electrodes sitting on the surface of his brain. He felt a tingling, poking sensation in his hand, like “reaching into an evergreen bush”, he says. “It was like I was decorating a Christmas tree.” Back in 1985, a car crash shattered three of Imbrie’s vertebrae and s

Federal President Steinmeier visited Erlangen as part of the series of events entitled “Workshop for change”. In the innovation hub Medical Valley Center Erlangen, five teams from the healthcare sector presented their projects, including “GraspAgain”, a start-up initiated by a research team at FAU. What is needed to successfully transform the healthcare sector and what are the features of a successful transformation? These were the questions Federal President Steinmeier hoped

A key aim of Pieter Roelfsema’s research is to develop a device to restore rudimentary eyesight to people whose optic nerve has died. Neuroscientist Pieter Roelfsema describes how his research might ultimately help people who have lost their sight. An applied goal of Pieter Roelfsema’s lab at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam is to create a visual brain prosthesis aimed at people who have lost their sight. To help achieve this goal, the lab partners with