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UCF researchers have uncovered evidence that some movement-related symptoms of Alzheimer's disease may originate outside the ...

Recently, a neurotech company called Paradromics made headlines by successfully implanting its brain-computer interface (BCI) in a human for the first time. The procedure happened at the University of ...

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