Longer Lives Make Suicide a More Popular Option
I was presenting some of the forecasts from our recently released HC2020 map last week when I saw a detail in one the map that I had never seen before. Check out this image from the map--something we call an artifact from the future--that highlights our forecast for neurointerventions:
Neurointerventions
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I hope that chip in your brain won't cause problems at airport security
I love it when BoingBoing ("a directory of wonderful things") ends up being the source for one of my posts. This tweet headline defintely caught my eye: "Researchers expand clinical study of brain implant." Sure enough, BoingBoing guest blogger Joshua Foer writes that he is "excited to see that the BrainGate Neural Interface System is moving to phase-II clinical testing." So am I!
Our Health and Health Care 2020 research has led us to forecast that neurointerventions will have an important impact on health and health care over the next decade. Brain Gate is an excellent signal of that future. The company's tagline, Turning Thoughts into Action, sums it up. In simple terms, its technology will allow "patients with brain stem stroke, ALS, and spinal cord injuries to eventually be able to control prosthetic limbs directly from their brains."
In fancier marketing language,
Neural Prosthetics
Researchers from the Brain Gate team are beginning a second, larger clinical study of their system, which connects to the motor cortex of the brain and transmits and translates neural signals into computable language. The larger trial will test some of the same software, which, according to a New York Times article about the first tests, allowed a participant to:
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All About the Brain
We've been busy in the Health Team getting ready for our Health Care 2020 conference this Tuesday and Wednesday and one area, among many, that we're exploring is neurointereventions, which we describe as the growing trend of treating the brain as a site for prevention, augmentation and enhancement. So I can't say that I was entirely surprised when I visited MIT's Technology Review and found the site highlighting several innovations around neuroscience.
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