MedPage Today April 22, 2024
— The burgeoning field holds both promise and risks
Through my work as a neuroscientist who designs neural implants to monitor the injured brain after severe traumatic brain injuries, stroke, and brain cancers, it has become very clear to me that my field needs to communicate more directly and more often with general audiences. Neurotechnology research is becoming an increasingly important and mainstream part of the neuroscience field, and with that, disseminating information and implementing regulations is essential. Not doing so risks public distrust and the proliferation of misinformation at a time where we are seeing a boom in the development and translation of devices that interface with the brain and central nervous system.
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