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Listening in to brain communications, without surgery

  • Written by Salvatore Domenic Morgera, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, University of South Florida
Signals from inside the brain can reveal what's happening in nerve cells.Peshkova/Shutterstock.com

Plenty of legitimate science – plus a whole lot of science fiction – discusses ways to “hack the brain.” What that really means, most of the time – even in the fictional examples – involves surgery, opening the...

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