Eleni Natsi

ATHENS - Fear of automation rendering humans obsolete and displacing them in the workforce is rife.

ATHENS - Psychiatry, the branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders, is currently undergoing a disruption. For decades, even centuries, this discipline has been based largely on subjective observation.

ATHENS - Imagine if one were suffering from paralysis and could control a motorized wheelchair or prosthetic limb through thought alone. This scenario is now becoming reality thanks to the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). BCIs, sometimes also called brain-machine interfaces, are direct communication pathways between the brain’s electrical activity and external devices, most commonly computers or robotic limbs.