The era of the omnicortex is upon us, and by upon us I mean it's coming for you, and your brain.
Mini-brains reveal how mitochondrial mutations affect brain cells
Dec 2024, phys.org
Mini-brains, aka Brain Organoids. That is all.
via University of Bergen: Anbin Chen et al, Hallmark Molecular and Pathological Features of POLG Disease are Recapitulated in Cerebral Organoids, Advanced Science (2024). DOI: 10.1002/advs.202307136
Image credit: AI Art - Frequency Healing Eyelids - 2025
Researchers achieve success in allowing a patient to 'speak' using only the power of thought
Jul 2024, phys.org
(Epilepsy patients) In the first stage of the experiment, with the depth electrodes already implanted in the patient's brain, researchers asked him to say two syllables out loud: /a/ and /e/ while they recorded brain activity. Researchers then trained AI models to identify the specific brain cells whose electrical activity indicated the desire to say /a/ or /e/. Once the computer learned, he was asked to only imagine... The computer then translated the electrical signals...
via Tel-Aviv University Sourasky Medical Center, Ichilov Hospital: Ariel Tankus et al, A Speech Neuroprosthesis in the Frontal Lobe and Hippocampus: Decoding High-Frequency Activity into Phonemes, Neurosurgery (2024). DOI: 10.1227/neu.0000000000003068
Artificial imagination with the 'exocortex:' Researcher proposes software to aid scientific inspiration and imagination
Jan 2025, phys.org
The conceptualized exocortex will be an extension of a scientist's brain.
Maybe you just want to know that Brookhaven is doing this, that's all.
via U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Electronic Nanomaterials Group leader at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials: Kevin G. Yager, Towards a science exocortex, Digital Discovery (2024). DOI: 10.1039/D4DD00178H
'DeepFocus' offers minimally invasive brain stimulation through the nose
Feb 2025, phys.org
"By going through the nose, we can place electrodes as close to the brain as possible without opening the skull."
And that's all you need to know.
via Carnegie Mellon University Electrical and Computer Engineering: Yuxin Guo et al, DeepFocus: a transnasal approach for optimized deep brain stimulation of reward circuit nodes, Journal of Neural Engineering (2025). DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/adac0c
Direct translation of brain imaging to text with MindLLM
Feb 2025, phys.org
fMRI to text. You're fucked.
- AKA decoding brain activity into natural language
- Improves on prior models like UMBRAE, BrainChat, and UniBrain
via Yale University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Cambridge: Weikang Qiu et al, MindLLM: A Subject-Agnostic and Versatile Model for fMRI-to-Text Decoding, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.15786
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