The device, designed to be implanted beneath the skull but outside the brain, maps activity and delivers targeted pulses of ultrasound to switch on clusters of neurons.
Neurotechnologies can help a much broader range of people than we thought. Helping with treatment resistant depression, epilepsy, addiction, eating disorders, that is the huge opportunity here.
These innovations could be really fast-moving from a technical perspective, but we're lagging behind on addressing neuroethical issues.
We're now accessing neural pathways in a way that we haven't been able to do before, so we need to carefully consider the clinical impact of any intervention.
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