How Brain-Monitoring Tech Advances Could Change the Law - Neuroscience News

Summary: Researchers discuss different applications for neurotech including monitoring criminals, interacting in the metaverse, and enhancing cognitive abilities. Dr Allan McCay, a criminal law scholar at University of Sydney Law School, has published the first substantial overview of neurotechnology and its implications for the law and the legal profession. Neurotechnologies are technologies that interact directly with the brain, or more broadly the nervous system, by monitoring and recording neural activity, and/or acting to influence it. Sometimes neurotechnology is implanted in the brain but it may also be in the form of a headset, wristband or helmet. The technology is already being used in health settings for the treatment of patients with Parkinson's and epilepsy and could be used in the future to monitor and treat schizophrenia, depression and anxiety.