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A brain implant changed her life. Then it was removed against her will. | MIT Technology Review

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Her case highlights why we need to enshrine neuro rights in law.

A brain implant changed her life. Then it was removed against her will. | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content Sticking an electrode inside a person’s brain can do more than treat a disease. Take the case of Rita Leggett, an Australian woman whose experimental brain implant changed her sense of agency and self. She told researchers that she “became one” with her device. She was devastated when, two years later, she was told she had to remove the implant because the company that made it had gone bust. The removal of this implant, and others like it, might represent a breach of human rights, et

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