Links for Learning About Neurotechnology
- Mijail Serruya
- Aug 17, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: Jan 20
Here is a free-to-register online course about bench-to-bedside translation of medical devices:
All are welcome to join and learn from the Implantable Brain-Computer Interface Collaborative Community founded by Jennifer French and Leigh Hochberg:
You may enjoy perusing Neurotech Futures curated by Naveen Rao. He compiles market coverage, analysis and more about neurotechnology, and he does so with a great sense of enthusiasm and humanistic warmth:
A superb, free online resource to learn about Digital Signal Processing By Steven W. Smith:
A 2021 New Yorker article investigating the perspective of people living with different medical devices implanted in their brains:
Daniel DiLorenzo's story about launching a venture to treat epilepsy:
A video testimonial story of an amazing man with severely self-injurious, medically refractory Tourette's syndrome that was significantly improved by a deep brain stimulator:
Neurotechnology beyond Medtronic, Abbott, Boston Scientific, Neuropace, Nevro:
In VItro Neurocomputing:
Implantable Brain-Computer Interface startups:
Precision Neuroscience (subdural)
CortecNeuro (subdural)
Kampto (subdural)
Neurosoft-Bio (subdural diagnostic)
Forest Neurotech (implantable ultrasound)
Merge Labs (Sam Altman's iBCI startup with Sumner@Forest and Mikhail@Caltech)
Neuralink (Elon Musk's iBCI startup, rigid intracortical)
Paradromics (rigid intracortical)
Blackrock Neurotech (rigid intracortical, plus maybe subdural "neural lace")
Axoft (soft intracortical)
Synchron (endovascular)
NeuroBionics (endovascular)
Epsilon (Tokyo; endovascular)
Motif (implantable, like getting rTMS benefit but all the time, for depression)
Science Corporation (intraocular-epiretinal and subdural biohybrid)
Echo Neurotech (Eddie Chang)
SubSense (intranasal nanoparticle interface)
UNEEG (subdermal EEG)
Brainscape Medical EpiOs (subdermal EEG)
ONWARD Medical — epidural/subdural ECoG BCI + spinal stim (ARC-BCI with licensed WIMAGINE implant from CEA-Clinatec)
NeuroXess (China;pioneering minimally invasive, high-density ultra-thin flexible electrodes <0.7mm implant size thousands of neural channels with single-neuron resolution, demonstrated to function reliably in the body for over 8 months with clinical ethics approval)
NeuCyber NeuroTech (Beijing Xinzhi Da Neural Technology Co., Ltd.) semi-invasive wireless fully implanted BCI system called "Beinao-1" epidural placement, a flexible electrodes; May 2025 achieved world's first successful real-time Chinese language decoding test, enabling a 67-year-old ALS patient to convert brain signals into phrases like "I want to eat.”
Implantable Tissue Constructs:
BE Therapeutics (Jean Herbert's neocortical replacement Ship of Theseus)
Matricelf (autologous iPSC in ECM)
Axonova Medical (stretch grown living axon conduits)
Cellf Bio (autologous sphincter cultivation and replacement)
Focused Research Organizations & Tech Billionaire Family Offices & Institutes
Convergent Research (Adam Marblestone, Mary Wang)
Speculative Technologies (SpecTech)
Astera (Jed McCaleb, Eli Dourado, Doris Tsao)
e184 (Kirill Eves)
Wearable/External Ultrasound:
Zenbud (ultrasound vagus modulation)
Nudge (whole brain ultrasound)
Implantable Stimulation for Stroke Recovery:
Microtransponder (Paired Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Vivistim is FDA-approved and CMS-covered)
ReachNeuro (investigational spinal cord stimulation from Caprogrosso and Powell at UPMC)
EnspireDBS (investigational deep cerebellar nuclei DBS from Machado team)
Cortigent (investigational motor cortex stimulation)
Skin-surface electrical stimulation:
Restorative-Therapies (FDA-cleared FES for rehab, cycling and arm)
Myolyn (FDA-cleared FES for rehab, cycling)
Truvaga (electrical auricular stim, vagus+cervical+trigeminal, consumer)
NeuvanaLife (electrical auricular stim, vagus+cervical+trigemina, consumerl)
Alpha-Stim (electrical auricular stim 'cranial electrotherapy', vagus+cervical+trigeminal, FDA‑cleared for anxiety, insomnia, and pain)
Vagus.net — taVNS ear-stim (consumer)
Hoolest (VeRelief Prime) — auricular branch (ABVN) stim around the ear (consumer/wellness)
SaluStim / Helsinki Ear Institute — ear-clip taVNS used in AFib, tinnitus and stress research
tVNS Technologies (Germany) — makers of NEMOS®/tVNS® auricular stimulators used clinically in the EU
Neurovalens (Modius) — behind-the-ear pads; vestibular-nerve–focused. FDA-cleared for chronic insomnia (Modius Sleep), GAD symptoms (Modius Stress)
Soterix Medical — research-grade taVNS hardware/electrodes
Pulsetto — neckband that targets the cervical vagus (consumer/wellness
HingeHealth Enso (electrical stim analgesia)
OnwardMedical ArcEx (FDA cleared electrical stim for spinal cord injury)
SpineX SCIP (FDA cleared electrical stim for cerebral palsy)
Nerivio (FDA cleared arm stim for migraine relief)
Cefaly (FDA clearedforehead-trigeminal stim for migraine relief)
GammaCore (electrical vagus modulation at neck, FDA cleared for acute cluster headache, acute migraine, hemicrania continua, paroxysmal hemicrania,)
Relivion (FDA cleared skin stim for migraine relief)
Monarch trigeminal stim (FDA cleared forehead stim for ADHD)
Percutaneous Stim
IB-Stim (peri-auricular percutaneous thumbtack stim to ear, for irritable bowel)
NSS-2 Bridge (Innovative Health Solutions/DyAnsys)
AuriStim (Multisana)
TMS+EEG Diagnostic:
QuantalX (single-pulse TMS -EEG functional mapping)
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (for depression/OCD relief):
NeurotherapeutiXNYC (out-of-pocket fMRI-guided personalized-rTMS)
Magnus Medical (out-of-pocket MRI-guided personalized 1-week rTMS, FDA certified SAINT protocol)
MagStim
Brainsway
Neuronetics (NeuroStar)
MagVenture (Denmark)
Nexstim (Finland)
Neurosoft/CloudTMS (Russia-based, marketed as CloudTMS)
MAG & More (Apollo TMS System)
TMS neuronavigation:
Allium (onion flower) + Axilla Robotics
Soterix Medical
TMS for Migraine Relief:
eNeura
Mechanical Korus by Soterya (self-repositioning bed)
LaceUp (soft evenly-distributed weighted sleeves)
Powered wearable orthotics:
Biomotum (lower extremity)
Scalp-EEG Rehab Wrist Orthotic + Care Coordination:
Kandu (absorbed Neurolutions)
Prosthetic robotic limbs:
PhantomNeuro (has subdermal neural recording implant)
Msc Assistive:
Mechanical Vibration Therapeutics:
ApolloNeuro (wrist vibration)
Shiftwave (whole-body vibration)
Accelera (vibration for balance)
Eitac BalanceBelt (vibration for balance)
RxFunction Walkasins (foot vibration for balance)
MyoVolt (vibration straps for knee, ankle, back)
Audiovisual Neuromodulation:
Sana (audiovisual modulation for analgesia)
Not sure how to classify:
Inner Cosmos (pill+TMS combo?)
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