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Building resilience when neural implants are abandoned

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As neural implants become more integrated with human cognition and identity, the risks posed by their sudden discontinuation are unique and demand urgent attention.

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  1. Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    George Kouvas, Bernice Simone Elger & Fabrice Jotterand

  2. Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Christopher Coenen & Dirk Hommrich

  3. Laboratory for Biomedical Microtechnology, Department of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Thomas Stieglitz

  4. BrainLinks-BrainTools Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Thomas Stieglitz

  5. Unit for Health Law and Humanitarian Medicine, Center for Legal Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Bernice Simone Elger

  6. Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Fabrice Jotterand

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G. K. is a co-founder, board member and shareholder at Brainscape Medical (Geneva, Switzerland). T.S. is a co-founder of CorTec (Freiburg, Germany) and neuroloop (Freiburg, Germany) and is a member of their scientific advisory boards.

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Kouvas, G., Coenen, C., Hommrich, D. et al. Building resilience when neural implants are abandoned. Nat Med 31, 2850–2853 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03772-x

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