Electroceuticals, The Brain/Machine Interface And Superhumans: The Future Of Neuroscience?

We’ll be skiing at 95, living well past 125 – with our brains controlling machinery that’s symbiotic with our bodies. Or so said Geoffrey Ling, director of the biological technologies office at DARPA. He spoke about the sci-fi future of neuroscience while on a panel this week at the World Medical Innovation Forum in Boston.

Ling was joined by Ajay Verma, vice president of Experimental Medicine at Biogen (hold the Idec); and GlaxoSmithKline bioelectronics R&D vice president Kristoffer Famm. The trio was tasked with discussing disruptive technologies in neurocare, and man, did they deliver:

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