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The Rise of BCI Permits Advances in Neuroscience Conor Russomanno hadn't stopped thinking about the outcomes of the multiple concussions he'd suffered playing football and rugby at Columbia University; much less than a year after his closing extreme hit, he had handed a neurologist's standardized check of cognition, but he nonetheless wasn't himself, as a minimum now not all of the time. "My mind [was] truly extraordinary than it became earlier than," he says. "I became sure, without a doubt, amped and self-influenced and assured on sure days, after which I would hit these intense lows on different days." In the following 12 months, as Russomanno was pursuing a master's diploma in design in New York City,  a friend offered to sell him a MindFlex—a current toy from Mattel that allowed users to make a ball hovering on an air jet rise and fall by way of concentrating on it—and pointed him to an online academic on how he should hack the toy to cr