Father of the Cyborgs: The Irish neurologist who hacked his own brain
Father of the Cyborgs: The Irish neurologist who hacked his own brain A new film about Phil Kennedy explores his groundbreaking scientific work Sat, Mar 6, 2021, 05:00 Not too far into this millennium, the Irish-born neurologist Phil Kennedy found himself at the centre of considerable media attention. The Washington Post compared his ground-breaking work to that of telephone-inventor Alexander Graham Bell. A medical colleague, Roy Bakay, while addressing an audience of neurosurgeons in 1998, described Kennedy’s work as “Star Wars stuff.” “I was always interested in the brain,” s...
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