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Tucked underneath the brain’s outer, wrinkly cortex is a deeply mysterious area, known as the claustrum. This region has long been known to exchange signals with much of the cortex, which is responsible for higher reasoning and complex thought. Because of the claustrum’s extensive connections, the legendary scientist Francis Crick, Ph.D., of DNA-discovery fame, first …
First successful demonstration by Boston University (US) researchers of a permanently installed, wireless implant to amplify, convert, and sort speech signaling in the brain, and then decode the signals into commands relayed to an external speech synthesizer. The cessation of continuity of neural signal transmission from the brain to other parts of the body affects …