About
A window onto the whole field
The BCI Briefing is an independent intelligence and editorial platform following the global brain-computer interface field. It exists to make an extraordinarily complex field navigable, understandable and trustworthy.
Optimistic about the future. Rigorous about the evidence.
We are enthusiasts. People who could not speak are holding conversations; people who could not move are walking; a retinal implant that restores reading has reached the market. We think this is one of the most consequential areas of science and medicine, and we want readers to leave more excited than they arrived.
Enthusiasm is only worth something if it is accurate. So every claim on this site carries its source and the kind of evidence behind it. We celebrate real progress, and we describe limitations as what needs to happen next.
News is one input. The product is a connected map: research linked to the technology it uses, the datasets and tools behind it, the studies testing it in people, the companies building it and the capital funding it.
Who it is for
- Researchers
- A clear view of what is happening outside your own specialty.
- Clinicians
- Which studies exist, at what stage, and what has actually been reported.
- Founders and engineers
- The technology landscape, the open problems and the tools to build with.
- Investors and strategy teams
- The field's structure without days of reconstruction from papers and announcements.
- Patients and families
- What is real today and what is still experimental, stated plainly.
- Curious readers
- How far the field has come, and what it would take to go further.
This edition
A curated corpus, built on real records
The corpus is curated by hand: 386 connected entities joined by 1140 explicit relationships: papers checked against PubMed, studies read from ClinicalTrials.gov, repositories read from GitHub, and news checked against its sources.
It is not complete and does not pretend to be. Where an entry is recorded from editorial knowledge and has not yet been re-checked, the site says so. Analytical views are labelled as analysis. If something that belongs here is missing, suggest an addition; if something is wrong, see Corrections.