A patient who had been blind for three years due to ischemic optic neuropathy has partially recovered his vision thanks to the implantation of a microelectrode array in his visual cortex. The patient, who lost his sight due to an [...]
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster have discovered neural stem cells outside the brain in mice, in peripheral organs such as the lungs, tail, and limbs, according to a report in the journal Nature Cell [...]
For the first time, a bilingual person, who suffered a stroke more than ten years ago that caused him to lose the ability to speak, has been able to communicate in English and Spanish thanks to a brain implant. The [...]
The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) was dedicated to the long-termism and effective altruism movements and was founded in 2005 by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom. The long-term movement argues that humanity should be primarily concerned with long-term existential threats, such [...]
Stanford researchers have developed a new AI model that can identify different brain functional connectivities depending on sex. The study, published in PNAS on February 20, helps resolve whether sex-related differences exist in the human brain and suggests that understanding [...]
“Telepathy”, the new brain implant created by Neuralink, aims to create brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that allow devices to connect with the mind using artificial intelligence. South African multimillionaire Elon Musk announced on January 29 on his social network X that [...]
The message of transhumanism is very simple: thanks to science and technology, people will become beings far superior to modern humans and will live forever. Although there is quite a lot of science fiction in the most enthusiastic transhumanist predictions, [...]
Rapid advances in neuroscience and neurotechnology have opened up an unprecedented set of possibilities “for accessing, collecting, sharing and manipulating information from the human brain”, announced Roberto Andorno, professor at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), at the Interuniversity Congress on [...]
The Bioethics Observatory of the Catholic University of Valencia (UCV) held the Congress on New Frontiers in Neuroethics in July. Julio Tudela, director of the Bioethics Observatory, has coordinated the event in which experts from international universities have participated. They [...]
The Human Brain Project is born It has been ten years since the European Union launched an ambitious and highly funded project to understand the human brain in depth, and in particular to decipher how the brain creates consciousness. According [...]
Japanese researchers have published an article in the prestigious journal “Nature Human Behaviour” studying the behavior of eight-month-old babies in the face of aggressive behavior. The main objective of the study was to investigate whether in early childhood moral behavior [...]
Review and first analysis of an article on the subject published in Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética (Ibero-American Journal of Bioethics) recently published an interesting article on neuroenhancement, in which its difficulties and limits are addressed from [...]
