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Exploring how we think: Mind, Body, Spirit - Part 1 | TED Radio Hour

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The Future of Brain-Computer Interfaces

The first report of a human implant was in 2006 by Lee Hochberg and colleagues in Nature. There's an issue with putting a needle into the brain and that is that it can cause an inflammation reaction. The blood vessels are the natural highways into the brain. These are hollow tubes that connect every corner of the brain. We call this the stent road, because we already know how to travel through the blood vessels.

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