Summary: BRAIN Initiative grantee Ken Shepard leads team to invent an implanted brain-interface device that could transform the lives of people with neurodegenerative diseases or who are hearing/visually impaired.

A flexible multielectrode array designed by Shepard and his team. If successful, this noninvasive device could alter the lives of people with hearing and visual impairments and neurodegenerative diseases. (Credit: Ken Shepard)