{"id":89322,"date":"2019-04-08T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/this-neural-implant-accesses-your-brain-through-the-jugular-vein"},"modified":"2019-04-08T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:23:27","slug":"this-neural-implant-accesses-your-brain-through-the-jugular-vein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/this-neural-implant-accesses-your-brain-through-the-jugular-vein","title":{"rendered":"This Neural Implant Accesses Your Brain Through the Jugular Vein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-neural-implant-accesses-your-brain-through-the-jugular-vein.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A permanent neural implant that reads brain activity and churns out text could prove to be a valuable medical tool, but it also could provide doctors with an unprecedented 24\/7 stream of neural data.<\/p>\n<p>Oxley recognizes that an <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/facebook-brain-computer-interface-zuckerberg\">endless feed of brain activity<\/a> could be invaluable to medical researchers, but he doesn\u2019t have plans to tap into that yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The Stentrode is] going to show us information that we hadn\u2019t had before. Whether that helps us understand other things is not what we\u2019re trying to do here,\u201d he said, clarifying that Synchron\u2019s primary goal is to get the new brain-computer interface working so that it can help paralyzed patients. \u201cThis is a novel data set, but this raises questions around privacy and security. That\u2019s the patient\u2019s data, and we can\u2019t be mining that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/noninvasive-neural-implant-clinical-trials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A permanent neural implant that reads brain activity and churns out text could prove to be a valuable medical tool, but it also could provide doctors with an unprecedented 24\/7 stream of neural data. Oxley recognizes that an endless feed of brain activity could be invaluable to medical researchers, but he doesn\u2019t have plans to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89322","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}