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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Nice work!
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Jacob Lab @jacob-lab.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
My highlight of 2025: the first #microelectrode #BCI for spinal cord injury in Europe! 🦾⚡️🧠 🎥 (feature in German) www.ardmediathek.de/video/gesund...
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Gesundheit!: KI-Gehirn-Chip bei Querschnittlähmung - hier anschauen
KI-Gehirn-Chip bei Querschnittlähmung: Was bringt ein in das Gehirn implantierter Chip Menschen mit Querschnittlähmung mehr an Lebensqualität und Mobilität?
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Frequent BCI recalibration due to changing neural activity mark a significant hurdle in long-term BCI engagement. Researchers at stanford now demonstrate a clever approach enabling unsupervised decoder adaptation by infering task labels and reinforcing the neural decoder #neuroskyence
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Long-term unsupervised recalibration of cursor-based intracortical brain–computer interfaces using a hidden Markov model - Nature Biomedical Engineering
A hidden Markov model that uses probabilistic retrospective inference allows for up to one month of unsupervised recalibration in an online cursor-based intracortical brain–machine interface.
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
exactly, aphasia & SCI
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
@jacob-lab.bsky.social bringing it home for germany! Already the 2nd chronically implanted participant of the group
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Nicola Sambuco @nicolasambuco.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
New study challenges the idea of a unified decision network: Neuropixel recordings in primate OFC showed robust encoding during value-based choices but near-silence during perceptual decisions, even when rewards are at stake. #RewardSignals #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Selective engagement of the primate orbitofrontal cortex during value-based but not perceptual decisions
A fundamental question in neuroscience is whether the brain uses specialized sub-systems for different types of decisions or relies on a unified decision-making network. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC)...
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
DARPA-backed brain-computer interface just published in Nat. Electronics: Ken and colleagues present a fully implanted, 50-μm thick ECoG with 65.000 channels on a 256x256 grid. Their system wirelessly transmits power and signals to a relay-coil outside the skull #neuroskyence #neuroAI #compneuro
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A wireless subdural-contained brain–computer interface with 65,536 electrodes and 1,024 channels - Nature Electronics
A flexible micro-electrocorticography brain–computer interface that integrates a 256 × 256 array of electrodes, signal processing, data telemetry and wireless powering on a single complementary metal–...
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Speech decoding on the basis of single words has so far been limited to intracranial recordings. Scientists demonstrated the feasibility of non-invasive language decoding using EEG and MEG, finding that more training data consistently increases model performance #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI
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Towards decoding individual words from non-invasive brain recordings - Nature Communications
While deep learning has enabled the decoding of language from intracranial brain recordings, achieving this with non-invasive recordings remains an open challenge. Here the authors introduce a deep le...
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Changing behavior with ultrasound 🔊🧠 Focused ultrasound is shown to reliably modulate deep brain areas such as the nucleus accumbens, comparable to DBS. Stimulation during a reinforcement learning task altered reward expectation, learning curves and task strategy #neuroAI #neuroskyence #compneuro
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Non-invasive ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human nucleus accumbens impacts reward sensitivity - Nature Communications
This study shows that non-invasive ultrasound to the human nucleus accumbens can modulate deep brain activity and enhance reward-guided learning, offering a potential alternative to invasive neuromodu...
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Insular neural interfaces Cognitive error signals in the anterior insula propagate toward prefrontal cortex when a BCI fails to follow the user’s intention. Real-time integration enables a self-correcting neural interface that compensates for its own decoder misclassifications #neuroskyence
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Insular error network enables self-correcting intracranial brain-computer interface
Error recognition is fundamental to adaptive behavior, enabling rapid compensatory action when outcomes deviate from expectations. Central to this function are neural circuits for performance monitori...
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thalamus for vision BCIs Scientists have recorded single neurons in the human LGN for the first time, revealing how it links the retina to visual cortex. When one eye is closed, neurons tuned to that eye reduce their activity, while neurons tuned to the open eye increase in spikerate #neuroskyence
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Effects of eye closure on the spiking activity of human lateral geniculate neurons - Nature Communications
The LGN is a critical stage between the retina and visual cortex, but the properties of human LGN neurons are not fully understood. Here the authors report that they closely resemble those in monkeys ...
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New article in Nature showing that the superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes language-specific features stronger when listening to the native language. Bilinguals on the other hand shared this higher-level tuning across both of their familiar languages @changlabucsf.bsky.social #neuroskyence
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Shared and language-specific phonological processing in the human temporal lobe - Nature
The human superior temporal gyrus processes acoustic–phonetic properties of speech regardless of whether the language is familiar to the listener, but only encodes word boundaries and language-sp...
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A race to the brain 🧠 Paradromics has just received FDA IDE approval to implant their micro-electrode array in human participants. The neuralink competitor will soon start recruiting patients with speech/motor impairments at UC Davis, Mass General Hospital and U Michigan #neuroskyence
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Paradromics Gets FDA Approval to Trial Its Brain Implant in People
The Austin-based startup will test its high-bandwidth device to help restore speech in people with extremely limited movement.
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
interesting work!
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Human superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes the progression of a word as it unfolds in time. The neural activity tracks relative position within the word, regardless of its length, and resets at each new word boundary. #neuroskyence @changlabucsf.bsky.social
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Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding
We perceive continuous speech as a series of discrete words, despite the lack of clear acoustic boundaries. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) encodes …
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Towards a bidirectional visual neuroprosthesis 👁️⚡️ Spiking activity near intracortical stimulation sites proved to accurately predict the brightness and sharpness of perception. Using these signals in real time could one day optimize the individualized experience of each phosphene #neuroskyence
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Neural correlates of phosphene perception in blind individuals: A step toward a bidirectional cortical visual prosthesis
Visual prostheses are improved by decoding neural signals to predict and control visual perceptions in blind individuals.
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Jeff Bezos increases his bet on Synchron The company behind the stentrode just raised $200M in Series D funding, led by Double point ventures, Bezos Expeditions and ARCH ventures. The funding will be used to develop smaller stentrodes reaching multiple brain regions 🧠 #neuroskyence
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Neuralink Rival Synchron Raises $200 Million for Brain Implant
Synchron Inc. raised $200 million to advance its work building brain implants that doctors can insert through blood vessels, avoiding the costly and high-risk surgeries necessary to install devices ma...
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Great to see the general public and legislators engage more and more with BCIs. There is even an ISO standard now: www.iso.org/standard/832...
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ISO/IEC 8663:2025
Information technology — Brain-computer interfaces — Vocabulary
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Towards a unified “brain language”?
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Treating OCD with neurotechnology Researchers at UCSF used iEEG to map brain circuits in severe OCD, identifying the ventral capsule as bridge between the prefrontal cortex and limbic system. Multi-area DBS implantation led to rapid symptom improvement 🧠 #neuroskyence @changlabucsf.bsky.social
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Invasive brain mapping identifies personalized therapeutic neuromodulation targets that suppress OCD network activity - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Invasive brain mapping identifies personalized therapeutic neuromodulation targets that suppress OCD network activity
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
cool work!
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Interesting !
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
DBS for epilepsy ? Researchers demonstrated that stimulation of the thalamus helped reduce seizures by over 80%. Their approach showed a reduction in epileptiform discharges, in line with the nuclei's critical role in seizure termination #neuroskyence #neuroAI #neuroscience
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Thalamocortical hodology to personalize electrical stimulation for focal epilepsy - Nature Communications
Over 50 million people worldwide suffer from epilepsy, and many patients remain resistant to medication. Here, the authors hypothesized that targeting thalamic nuclei with precise anatomical...
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
awesome work! it was only question of time until someone uses those concept cells in real-time
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
What a nice report! Funny to see all you guys in lab coats
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
nice work!
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Bigtime publication on retinal prosthesis @science.xyz implanted 38 patients with macular degeneration with the PRIMA subretinal implant. Paired with camera-equipped glasses, the system improved central vision in 80% of participants, allowing them to read again @maxhodak.bsky.social #neuroskyence
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Subretinal Photovoltaic Implant to Restore Vision in Geographic Atrophy Due to AMD | NEJM
Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in ...
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
#neuroskyence
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Congrats to such a nice publication!
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
P.S. The procedure seems like it can be replicated by in-house engineers for low costs at university hospitals ;)
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🧠 In this behind-the-scenes video, Neuralink's surgery engineering team shows how they build realistic head and brain models from patient CT and MRI scans. These "proxies" let surgeons rehearse each procedure in advance. 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=WhG-...
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How Elon Musk’s Neuralink Builds Fake Brains
YouTube video by Core Memory
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Thanks for coming by! @mverwoert.bsky.social
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Jacob Lab @jacob-lab.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A big push for #BCI and #neurotechnology in Europe! We implanted our second microelectrode array #BCI @tum.de. Huge thanks to our pioneer and to fantastic colleagues in #Neurosurgery and #Robotics #Machine #Intelligence 🧠🦾🧪 #neuroskyence @neuroengineering.bsky.social www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
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Brain-computer interface for a patient with quadriplegia
A team at the Technical University of Munich’s TUM University Hospital has implanted a brain-computer interface in a patient paralyzed from the neck down.
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Great job Simon! What a milestone in europe
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Ultrasound maps deep brain function over months Scientists used functional ultrasound imaging to record from primate parietal cortex over months. Their method combines high spatial resolution and long-term stability, revealing direction-tuned saccadic neural patches #neuroskyence #compneurosky
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Functional ultrasound neuroimaging reveals mesoscopic organization of saccades in the lateral intraparietal area - Nature Communications
The functional organization of the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) for guiding eye movements has remained unknown. Here, the authors use functional ultrasound neuroimaging to reveal small, tuned clust...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 14/10/2025
OpenNeuro @openneuro.bsky.social just hit a huge milestone: 1500 datasets! Congrats to the team on making this project so successful over the last 7 years.
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This will be the largest coordinated tACS study to date. Its outcome will shape how we interpret and apply brain stimulation in the future. Learn more and follow updates here: 🔗 tacschallenge.org #tACSChallenge #Neurostimulation #NIBS #OpenScience #neuroskyence 🧵5/5
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Participating labs include @unimainz.bsky.social, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, @uofglasgow.bsky.social , @stanford.edu, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Today marks the official kick-off. Data collection runs Aug 2025–Aug 2026, with results expected in 2027. 🧵4/5
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The tACS Challenge unites labs worldwide under a single, pre-registered protocol. They will test whether 10 Hz tACS can modulate visual performance while controlling for known artefacts. All data and code will be shared openly. 🧵3/5
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
For over a decade, tACS has been explored as a way to rhythmically interact with brain activity and behavior. While many studies report promising effects, results vary across labs, highlighting the need for larger, coordinated investigations. 🧵2/5
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
🧠⚡️ Can transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) truly rhythmically modulate brain activity in humans? More than 30 labs are joining forces in the tACS Challenge, a global effort to test one of brain stimulation's biggest questions. 🧵1/5
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
cool work! #neuroskyence
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Precision Neuroscience published their high-density ECoG in Nature Biomed. Eng. The startup shows a 1,024-channel grid implanted through a cortical slit in pigs, and intraoperative neural recordings and stimulation in five humans at sub-mm resolution. #neuroskyence @precisionneuro.bsky.social
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Minimally invasive implantation of scalable high-density cortical microelectrode arrays for multimodal neural decoding and stimulation - Nature Biomedical Engineering
A 1,024-channel microelectrode array is delivered to the brain cortex via a minimally invasive incision in the skull and dura, and allows recording, stimulation and neural decoding across large portions of the brain in porcine models and human neurosurgical patients.
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Can we combine neural data across individuals to improve speech BCIs? A recent study used transfer learning on distributed iEEG recordings to enhance speech decoding. By learning shared latent manifolds, their cross-subject model outperformed individual models in a speech motor task. #neuroskyence
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Transfer learning via distributed brain recordings enables reliable speech decoding - Nature Communications
Speech brain-computer interfaces face challenges scaling across individuals with different brain organization. Using minimally invasive recordings from 25 patients, the authors developed transfer learning methods that enable robust speech decoding even with incomplete brain coverage.
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
awesome work!
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
great work! congrats
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Awesome work! congrats to the whole team
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Neuropixel's newest ultra-high density probe enables larger neuronal yield (up to 2x), with over 6000 recording channels. #neuroskyence
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Neuroengineering @neuroengineering.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
With all that said, we agree the system can (and should) improve. But stopping research until ethics are "settled" isn't the answer. We need stronger safeguards (independent ethics, transparency, global dialogue) while enabling responsible innovation. Unfortunately, there is no single solution.
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