I recently started to work with people in very specialized fields like neurotech and feels a bit strange – guess I can't even explain it properly

the more niche someone’s expertise is, the harder it seems (at least for me) to understand where they actually "fit" or I'd even say which organisation "fits them"

Earlier I only worked with professions that were pretty bendy and multitasking in a way (?) and with people kinda desperate for work too....

but now neurotech is something extremely different and difficult – and I want to try to find the real cause of it because I refuse to believe the stereotypes of "geeky scientists who live in theirs heads, awkward around people" and so on (sorry but this one kinda annoys me)

Hello! I am a university student and am currently doing a senior design class.

My proposed product to develop is an EEG, which takes the Beta and Theta waves present in a person and automatically compares the ratio between them to give a hypothetical psychiatrist an idea of whether or not a person has ADHD. Really its just an excuse for me to mess around with EEG with school funding.

My question is about the EEG module I am to use. I will NOT be designing the module itself as that exceeds my level of expertise, and am wanting advice on what options I have that are cheap and preferably 8 channel. I am provided with $300 dollars in funding, and all I will really need to get is the module itself, I can get the microcontrollers and computers from lab. It doesn't have to be clinical grade, just accurate enough that its worth buying.

Here is the one I am looking at:

EEG Module from AliExpress

Any issues with this one in anyone's opinion?

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

I'm 26 old physician interested in pursuing career in neuroscience, I'm starting as self learner with neuromatch with goal of getting into data analysis type of research to build CV. Currently I'm starting with prerequisite such as linear algebra/python,

For reference, I have solid background in neuroscience, did c++ in highschool so I'm not new in programming but my maths skills are of highschool.

If someone is in similar boot, hit me with dm and let's study together.

I am currently learning about the nervous system, particularly about upper motor neurons (UMN) and lower motor neurons (LMN).

However, one thing I am confused by is how they are classified.

Currently, my knowledge is that the nervous system is divided into 2 parts: Central (CNS) and Peripheral (PNS).
PNS is then further divided into motor and sensory divisions.

Correct me if I’m wrong but: Isn’t UMN and LMN part of the motor division of the PNS? If so, why are UMN considered CNS whereas LMN considered as PNS. I was thinking if it might be due to functional vs anatomical classifications? But even so it confuses me.

It would be great if someone can help me understand the classifications better and I would really appreciate it🙏🙏

To preface this post, I'm NOT a scientist nor anyone with medical knowledge. I'm simply a 16-year-old kid who likes engineering.

I was thinking about machine learning and how the brain can learn skills and knowledge so effectively. I realized that the brain abstracts simple actions into larger and larger portions. Once the brain somehow "realizes" that a neural pathway can be repeated with close to no errors and that it helps the brain succeed in a specific goal, it abstracts that "concept" in a way.

I'll give an example of what I'm talking about: When you first learn to play an instrument, you're only focusing on the physical movements. On a wind instrument, for example:

Blowing the correct amount of air, proper mouth position, etc. Once your brain can abstract playing a noise (By learning the specific muscle movements, etc), it goes on to learning how to play different notes. The brain would treat playing a noise as one operation rather than a bunch of little ones.

Once your brain can abstract playing individual notes, it then goes on to learning rhythm. This process continues until the brain abstracts playing entire phrases.

As I said earlier, I'm no scientist, but my intuition tells me that once your brain can abstract concepts, all it takes to "learn" something new is learning how to connect (and form) abstractions.

I'd guess that in the actual brain we'd already have abstractions for moving muscles, seeing, etc., so when you learn a new skill (like an instrument), you're not starting from ground zero.

I just wanted to share this idea with you all and to see if this idea is actually reasonable lol.

Photo is from The Brain Simplified (DK, 2022). Shouldn't a newborn have around 100 billion neurons?

So this week I mapped out the Scandinavian neurotech market.

I found 46 active neurotech companies across Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland. The full breakdown and analysis is on my Substack, but here's the map and the complete company list.

For someone reason ChatGPT loves hallucinating land masses south of Finland but I think I got there in the end.

https://open.substack.com/pub/theneurotechnewsletter

DENMARK (13)
• Cerebriu - MRI workflow AI - Imaging / interventional platforms
• Brainreader - Automated brain MRI volumetry - Imaging / interventional platforms
• Cercare Medical - Perfusion MRI/CT AI - Imaging / interventional platforms
• UNEEG Medical - Subcutaneous long-term EEG - EEG / electrophysiology
• PlatoScience - Clinician-supervised tDCS - Stimulation / neuromodulation
• OptoCeutics - 40 Hz light and sound stimulation - Stimulation / neuromodulation
• BrainCapture - Portable point-of-care EEG - EEG / electrophysiology
• Cebreo Medical - In-ear ambulatory EEG - EEG / electrophysiology
• Cenexum Technologies - Neuromorphic EEG / BCI chip - Interfaces / implants / neuroprosthetics
• MagVenture - TMS hardware - Stimulation / neuromodulation
• Coloplast / Intibia - Implantable tibial neuromodulation - Stimulation / neuromodulation
• Insai - EEG / PSG biomarkers and foundation models - EEG / electrophysiology
• Paragit - Wearable sEMG and movement analytics - Rehab / cognitive / movement
SWEDEN (12)
• Flow Neuroscience - At-home tDCS for depression - Stimulation / neuromodulation
• Elekta - Gamma Knife / stereotactic radiosurgery - Imaging / interventional platforms
• Integrum - Osseointegrated neuroprosthetics - Interfaces / implants / neuroprosthetics
• InnoBrain - Wearable EEG and BCI AI - Interfaces / implants / neuroprosthetics
• Mindmore - Digital cognitive assessment - Rehab / cognitive / movement
• BRYM - EEG neurofeedback - EEG / electrophysiology
• Neuronano - Neural electrodes - Interfaces / implants / neuroprosthetics
• SensoDetect - Auditory brainstem electrophysiology - EEG / electrophysiology
• Clinical Laserthermia Systems - Laser interstitial neurosurgery - Imaging / interventional platforms
• Mendi - Consumer fNIRS neurofeedback - Imaging / interventional platforms
• BrainLink Health - Implantable ICP monitoring / shunt - Interfaces / implants / neuroprosthetics
• Probingon - Intra-body communication for implants - Interfaces / implants / neuroprosthetics
FINLAND (12)
• Nexstim - Navigated TMS - Stimulation / neuromodulation
• Sooma Medical - Prescription at-home tDCS - Stimulation / neuromodulation
• MEGIN - Clinical MEG - Imaging / interventional platforms
• Bittium - EEG / EMG biosignal hardware - EEG / electrophysiology
• Adamant Health - sEMG and movement biomarkers - Rehab / cognitive / movement
• Audicin - Auditory neurostimulation - Stimulation / neuromodulation
• Neuro Event Labs - AI video/audio seizure monitoring - AI / diagnostics / software
• Cerenion - ICU EEG AI - EEG / electrophysiology
• Soihtu DTx - Game-based depression DTx - Rehab / cognitive / movement
• Ankerias - AI decision support for SCS - AI / diagnostics / software
• Neuro Scan AI Solutions - Wearable EEG seizure detection - EEG / electrophysiology
• Cortisys - Multi-locus TMS - Stimulation / neuromodulation
NORWAY (6)
• NordicNeuroLab - fMRI hardware and software - Imaging / interventional platforms
• Nordic Brain Tech - Migraine biofeedback and home sensing - Rehab / cognitive / movement
• Nisonic - Non-invasive ICP ultrasound - Imaging / interventional platforms
• BrainSymph - EEG biomarker diagnostics - EEG / electrophysiology
• Actential - Seizure forecasting AI - AI / diagnostics / software
• Neurolytix - AI biomarkers for early brain disease - AI / diagnostics / software
ICELAND (3)
• Kvikna Medical - Cloud clinical EEG software - AI / diagnostics / software
• Heila-Labs - Real-time electrophysiology AI - EEG / electrophysiology
• Nox Medical - EEG / AI sleep diagnostics - EEG / electrophysiology

Hi All - Need expert opinion here.
I’m a Manager and I use AI for all my tasks. Making Presentations and Prepping Data, writing emails. I have set up Workflows that help me save tonnes of time on a lot of tasks and I’m being at least 2x more productive.

However, I feel excessive use has limited my own abilities. I can’t think without going to Claude and dumping everything and then have him make connections. I can’t properly read without giving an article to Claude and asking him to summarise. I send my AI agents to two different Meetings at a time and have them collect notes.

What is this Called in the world of Neuro Science? Can I do any exercises to avoid this? Has Mankind gone through this before?

What material can I read related to this? Is anyone else experiencing this? Any advice is appreciated.

Any evidence that it becomes phenomenally salient?

I’m at a liberal arts school in my last year and I’ll graduate as a Chem major with a Neuroscience minor (my school doesn’t offer it as a major). I did some biochemistry research my first two years of school and presented a poster but never published anything. I have a 4.7 gpa and have taken most classes required by PhD programs. I would be interested in a more cog psych program or a neurobiology program. I would also be open to getting a PhD in the states or abroad. However, I keep reading about how difficult it is to get into a program and I’m starting to lose hope. Should I think about trying to get a masters first (could I even get funding for this?). Is there a place abroad where it would be easier to get into a funded program? I’m already planning to take a gap year after I graduate to give myself some breathing room. (Also is taking the GRE still a thing?)

I've already read about the, we could say, debate, going on about boiling lobsters alive and it got me thinking. With an intact brain, we are sure that living animals can respond to stimuli and react accordingly to keep their own lives, which is what we philosophically can consider pain for the lobster trying to escape the pot.

But, if we cut the brain of the lobster open, are we really sure that there's no pain anymore? Or just a lack of reaction because some nerves are severed? Wouldn't pain receptors still shot while detecting high temperatures until they are totally cooked and unable to process pain?

The same question could exist too in traumatic head injuries. Damaging the cerebellum actually makes a person stop filling or just makes them unable to react to pain?

Hello, I already asked this question a year ago, but now I’m interested in hearing what the foreign audience has to say. I’m 17 years old, I’m in my final year of high school, I’m from Russia, and I really want to become a neurobiologist, I’m interested in the human brain. Right now, in this country, there’s only one program I’m interested in: the HSE University’s “Cognitive Neuroscience” program. True, this is only in the capital, and to get into a budget‑funded program, you need to score at least 302 points (that’s all 3 exams at 100 points each and a few points for extracurricular activities). Paid education is not an option — it costs about $8,144 per year, while my family of 4, including two minors, earns $14,000. My English is at the B1 level; I can understand and read most texts, but I’m not good at speaking, so I write using a translator. Over the past two months, I’ve been studying and reviewing biology very actively; I’ve already completed general biology and can solve all types of genetic problems, and I also spend an hour a day on math.

I’d like to ask you where else I could apply, in case I fail to get into my top‑choice program. I’d really like to study abroad, and maybe someone here could tell me how to do that? Or maybe someone in my home country knows about other programs related to the brain.

So I’ve taken classes that include explaining channelrhodopsin, halorhodopsin, etc. and while I feel like I understand the process in general, the one part that always feels skimmed over are the viruses/genetic code. For a passion project of mine, I want to understand the things I feel I missed, and all the videos I watch on the subject seem to kind of ignore it too.

How do the viruses work to add these channels on the neuron membrane? Does the virus target the cells genetic code itself, or something else?

Is there a way we ensure the body doesn’t try and fight against the virus like an infection?

Also how much of this process is synthesized? Like are there free roaming infective viruses that affect neurons in a similar manner, and we mostly just attach our light-responding code for the ride?

Any insight or external resources would be greatly appreciated, especially if something I said sounded straight up wrong.

https://youtube.com/shorts/vo5Llanj_2o?feature=share

Can body signals tune the learning brain?

Post-training vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) enhanced learning in mice with vascular oscillations linked to memory performance.

Chen JU, Ikoma Y, Matsui K (2026) Vagal nerve stimulation induces vascular oscillations and enhances long-term learning iScience 2026 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.117413

I'm currently a hs junior, and unfortunately, I did not pass my school's entrance exam to do AP Bio (which focused exclusively on molecular biology that wasn't covered once in the class). That being said, I still do get decent grades for my biology class, which focuses on physiology.

My current targeted majors, if that's not a weird way to put it, are psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. I'm not 100% sure, but I feel like I might have a career related to research?

So yeah. Do you really need AP Bio to get in a neurosci major? Or is it better if I just take a credited online course about neuroscience or focus more on my math and stats aps.

I'm also taking ap calc AB, potentially BC, Macro and Micro, APUSH, AP Geo, and Stats (tutor+self-studying).

I plan on going to college for Neuroscience at least getting a Masters slightly considering a PhD but money and time and stuff you know…

I definitely want to go into research I was wondering if you guys had any other jobs within neuroscience, I wanna make sure i’m looking at all my options.

Hey! I’m a grad student in the Boston area and have been really interested in neurotech and non-invasive neuromodulation.

I’ve been wanting to try Pulsetto, but I’d rather experience the device before buying one. Would anyone around Boston/Cambridge be willing to lend theirs for a few days or a week?

Happy to pay a small rental fee or leave a deposit. Mostly just curious to experience the technology firsthand.

Thanks!

Ok...after some well deserved criticism on the previous post, I've tried to make the map less distorted and as close to geographically spot on as possible.

https://theneurotechnewsletter.substack.com/

The full company list is below

PARIS / ÎLE-DE-FRANCE (26)

• SonoMind — Paris — Focused ultrasound / acoustics
• TheraSonic — Paris — Focused ultrasound / acoustics
• ICONEUS — Paris — Focused ultrasound / acoustics
• Resolve Stroke — Paris — Focused ultrasound / acoustics
• NAOX Technologies — Palaiseau — Neural interfaces / sensing
• BioSerenity — Paris — Neural interfaces / sensing
• Sensome — Massy — Neural interfaces / sensing
• Yneuro / Dotsify — Paris — Neural interfaces / sensing
• Qynapse — Paris — Imaging / NeuroAI
• Callyope — Neuilly-sur-Seine — Imaging / NeuroAI
• Karavela — Paris — Imaging / NeuroAI
• Therapanacea — Paris — Imaging / NeuroAI
• Sigma Nova Science — Paris — Imaging / NeuroAI
• Wandercraft — Paris — Rehab / robotics / assistive
• Stimuli Technology / Tensi+ — Boulogne-Billancourt — Neuromodulation / therapeutics
• REGEnLIFE — Paris — Neuromodulation / therapeutics
• NeuraLed — Paris — Neuromodulation / therapeutics
• Clarity Technologies — Paris — Neuromodulation / therapeutics
• Robeauté — Paris — Enabling / interventional
• Sophysa — Orsay — Enabling / interventional
• Avatar Medical — Paris — Enabling / interventional
• Healthy Mind — Paris — Enabling / interventional
• Omind / Open Mind Innovation — Bobigny — Enabling / interventional
• Tilak Healthcare — Paris — Enabling / interventional
• AnotherBrain — Paris — Enabling / interventional
• GenSight Biologics — Paris — Enabling / interventional

LILLE METRO (1)

• Axorus — Loos — Focused ultrasound / acoustics

LYON (2)

• CarThera — Lyon — Focused ultrasound / acoustics
• NETRI — Lyon — Enabling / interventional

GRENOBLE REGION (4)

• MAG4Health — Grenoble — Neural interfaces / sensing
• Remedee Labs — Meylan — Neuromodulation / therapeutics
• PIXYL — La Tronche — Imaging / NeuroAI
• UroMems — Eybens — Enabling / interventional

MARSEILLE / AIX (3)

• Inclusive Brains — Marseille — Neural interfaces / sensing
• Panaxium — Aix-en-Provence — Neural interfaces / sensing
• Neuroservice-Alliance — Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade — Enabling / interventional

OTHER VERIFIED REGIONAL HQs (9)

• Seenel Imaging — Amiens — Neural interfaces / sensing
• Axilum Robotics — Schiltigheim / Strasbourg — Neuromodulation / therapeutics
• RebrAIn — Pessac / Bordeaux — Imaging / NeuroAI
• DIXI Medical — Marchaux-Chaudefontaine / Besançon — Neural interfaces / sensing
• Oktoscience — Rennes — Neuromodulation / therapeutics
• Basecamp Vascular — Reims — Enabling / interventional
• NBI / Neural Balance Innovation — Saint-Contest / Caen — Neuromodulation / therapeutics
• Neurinnov — Montpellier — Neuromodulation / therapeutics
• Dessintey — Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds / Saint-Étienne — Rehab / robotics / assistive

Total: 45

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-greatest-mind-fucks/answer/Pete-Bahba?share=1&srid=Xs9v

Asking this because the post mentions how seeing something "over there" is some sort of illusion when it's only within consciousness. I know David Eagleman said something similar but less mystical. I'm just wondering if there is anything in neuroscience that would imply this.