a brief explanation on Neuralink, the new technology currently being developed by Elon musk. prepared by us.

1. Neuralink And It’s
Applications
By: Rasul Akram & Sham
Muhammed
College of pharmacy stage 1
Year: 2021-2022

2. Table of contents
• What is Neuralink
• How Neuralink works
• How Neuralink will be installed
• Neuralink applications
• Challenges facing Neuralink

3. What is Neuralink?
• Neuralink is a device
that can help humans
interact with machines
using their brains
• Called N1 chipset or
Brain machine
interface (BMI).
• will be surgically
implanted into your
brain and with it, you’ll
be able to
communicate with
machines and even
control them.

4. How does Neuralink work?
Neural network
• Neuralink depends on the electrical
field that results from the
electrochemical activity of the brain.
• The N1 chip has more than one
thousand small electrodes that are
implanted in this neural network.
• These electrodes can then understand
the electrical signal in our brain and
translate them into an algorithm that a
machine can read.
• The goal of the N1 chip is to record
and stimulate electrical spikes inside
our brain.

5. How will Neuralink be installed?
• A highly specialized Neuralink
surgical robot will insert the
module into the brain using
needles the size of 24 microns.
• The operation will require a 2mm
incision in the skull.
• Electrodes, whose diameter is 5
microns, are inserted in the thin
surface of the cortex.
• After the procedure is complete the
exposed part of the skull will be
covered with the chipset module.
• Only takes an hour and painless.

6. Neuralink Applications
1) Helping patients with Spinal Cord injuries
Spinal cord injury is the showcase application of
Neuralink.
2) Treatment of neurological disorders
There is a high chance of Neuralink being able to
cure neurological disorders
3) Curing retinal injury or blindness
The idea is to essentially plug a camera directly
into the visual cortex and stimulate an enormous
array of thousands of electrodes to recreate a
visual image.
4) Uploading memories
In future Neuralink models, these memories are
uploaded to a Cloud Network in which it’s stored
there.

7. Challenges facing Neuralink
 Achieving a precise algorithm
is exceptionally hard
most brain-machine interfaces use
an approach called “biomimetic”
decoding.
for more complex movements or
mental process it’s much more
complicated and harder to record.
 Future Privacy Issues
In the future it will use the internet
to achieve most of the promised
services.
the device might be exposed to
hackers or viruses who might try to
steal data directly from the brain.

8. Refereces
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•Kennedy, R. (2021). What Is Neuralink? How Does The Technology Work And What Can A
Person Do With It?. Retrieved February 8, 2022 from:
https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/other-tech-news/what-is-neuralink-how-does-
the-technology-work-and-what-can-a-person-do-with-it.html
•Sagar, R. (2020). 10 Mind Bending Applications Of Neuralink, According To The Team.
Retrieved February 8, 2022 from: https://analyticsindiamag.com/mind-bending-applications-
neuralink-event/
•Neuralink. (n.d.). The Future of Neural Engineering. Retrieved February 8, 2022:
https://neuralink.com/applications/
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says. Retrieved February 8, 2022: https://theconversation.com/neuralink-brain-hacking-is-
exceptionally-hard-no-matter-what-elon-musk-says-145711