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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
Listening in to brain communications, without surgerySignals 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 examplesinvolves surgery, opening the...

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