{"id":185311,"date":"2024-03-17T22:26:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T03:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/this-soft-brain-implant-unfurls-its-arms-under-the-skull"},"modified":"2024-03-17T22:26:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T03:26:21","slug":"this-soft-brain-implant-unfurls-its-arms-under-the-skull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/this-soft-brain-implant-unfurls-its-arms-under-the-skull","title":{"rendered":"This soft brain implant unfurls its arms under the skull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qsvo_O4-amg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A soft brain implant that unfurls under the skull could give doctors a less invasive way to monitor patients\u2019 brain activity \u2014 and maybe allow people to directly control technology with their minds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> Placing an electrode array on the surface of the brain allows scientists to see neural activity in far more detail than is possible with electrodes outside of the skull.<\/p>\n<p>Known as \u201celectrocorticography,\u201d this technology was initially developed to treat people with epilepsy, but it\u2019s also been used in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fninf.2019.00074\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">research<\/a> for other types of neurological disorders and in the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/ejn.15941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brain-computer interfaces<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A soft brain implant that unfurls under the skull could give doctors a less invasive way to monitor patients\u2019 brain activity \u2014 and maybe allow people to directly control technology with their minds. The challenge: Placing an electrode array on the surface of the brain allows scientists to see neural activity in far more detail [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}