Northwestern’s wireless micro-LED implant writes patterned light signals into cortex, showing optogenetics as a potential input channel and outlining what still blocks products.

Researchers at Columbia and partners unveiled BISC, a paper-thin subdural neural chip with 65,536 electrodes and wireless data transfer, signaling a shift toward fully integrated, high-density BCI hardware.

Research reviewed in Nature Reviews Neuroscience shows light directly modulates attention, memory, and emotion via melanopsin retinal circuits, positioning illumination as an active input into human cognition rather than a passive background.

An MIT-led team demonstrated surgery-free neuromodulation using sub-cellular chips carried by immune cells into the brain, where near-infrared light wirelessly activates local neural circuits.

Consciousness research is shifting from mapping brain activity to testing competing theories, powered by new collaborations, neurotechnology, and AI. The stakes now extend beyond science into medicine, ethics, and law.

A UT Dallas team built a small neuromorphic prototype where learning occurs directly in hardware via magnetic synapses, showing a path toward energy-efficient, on-device learning inspired by the brain.

Neuromodulation is evolving fast. From non-invasive stimulation and ultrasound to implanted devices and genetic approaches, this guide maps the technologies reshaping brain treatment and enhancement.

Neurodegenerative diseases unfold over decades, but our data is fragmented and short-term. New computational models are beginning to reconstruct long-term disease timelines, with implications for trials, neurotech, and precision care.

By pairing EEG with an AI copilot, researchers show how shared autonomy can turn noisy brain signals into reliable control, narrowing the long-standing gap between non-invasive and implanted brain–computer interfaces.

A new brain–computer interface can decode silently imagined sentences in real time. For people with paralysis, inner speech offers a faster, less fatiguing, and more natural path to communication.

CRISPR has become more than a gene-editing tool. In neuroscience, it is now used to modulate gene expression, build human brain models, trace development, and uncover disease pathways with unprecedented precision.

As neuroscience pushes toward more naturalistic and long-term experiments, new classes of neural interfaces are expanding what can be measured, manipulated, and integrated inside the living brain.

Understanding how drugs act on the living brain has long been a bottleneck in neuroscience. Advances in neuroimaging are beginning to make drug effects observable earlier, more precisely, and with far greater confidence.

Cities concentrate opportunity, but also stressors that subtly shape how we think, feel, and cope. From social fragmentation to pollution and light exposure, urban environments leave measurable traces on mental health.

Psychiatric diagnosis remains largely behavioural, despite growing biological insight. Emerging biomarkers in autism and schizophrenia hint at more precise, individualised care, but translation into clinical practice has proven difficult.