Neurotechnology

The debate of use of music when studying/concentrating and what research has to offer Written by: Gurleen Kaur Edited by: Jack Thomson and Ankita Chatterjee Music is a unique art form that incorporates various genres and cultural styles. Whether it be lofi, instrumental, or rap, music has the power to…

Improved Attention for Improved Quality of Life Why Attention Matters Attention is vital for a variety of cognitive processes. The first step of forming memories is encoding, and inattention limits encoding. Similarly, if an individual is focused on the wrong things, they may fail to encode and store the memories they wish to retain. Memory is just one area of…

Hi, we are Anush Mutyala & Mikael Haji! — Imagine a world where mental diseases of the brain could be triaged and diagnosed effectively in minutes. What if we could upload our memories as a collection of videos and images to the cloud? What would happen if we increased our brain bandwidth and enabled our species to learn anything…

There’s a paper doing the rounds online (again) about how now you can “read minds with Stable Diffusion”; as it’s often the case, it’s very impressive but not what the hype (or criti-hype) headlines (and often the full articles…) say, I thought it’d be good to give a very short…

Pick an emotion. Any emotion. Not clumsy categories like “fear” and “joy.” Choose the half-breath between hearing behind you that which would kill you and the moment when your mind names what your body knows. …

by Max L. Wilson Consumer neurotechnology is arriving en masse, yet those of us working in related scientific fields know that the best tools, worth £30k+, lead to poor accuracy when trying to recognise cognitive changes, or classify types of cognitive state. These new wearables are going to shake what…

The Non-Pharma Landscape — Big Clinical Players AFAIK Dispatch #8 Alzheimer’s Families for Action, Innovation and Knowledge Introduction I have taken the position in this AFAIK series that pharmacological treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of cognitive decline see an overwhelming majority of funding and attention relative to neurostimulation approaches. …

The Role of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology in Education — I. Introduction As a neuroentrepreneur and professor, I’ve always been fascinated by the intersection of neuroscience and education. The field of neuroeducation, which combines these two disciplines, aims to understand the neural mechanisms of learning and memory and apply this knowledge to improve educational practices. …

Hey there, Brainiacs! We hope you enjoyed our previous read on “The Fascinating History of Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Frustrating Monkeys to Revolutionary Technologies?” Are you ready now for a deeper dive into the world of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)? We’ve got some exciting news for you — all this juicy information…