Jiaqi Li , Wangzheqi Zhang , Yan Liao , Yanhao Qiu , Yalin Zhu , Xiaomin Zhang , Changli Wang
{"title":"Neural decoding reliability: Breakthroughs and potential of brain–computer interfaces technologies in the treatment of neurological diseases","authors":"Jiaqi Li , Wangzheqi Zhang , Yan Liao , Yanhao Qiu , Yalin Zhu , Xiaomin Zhang , Changli Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, stroke, and epilepsy frequently result in irreversible disability. Brain–computer interface (BCI) technologies offer the promise of recovering or replacing impaired sensory, motor, and cognitive functions by directly stimulating cortical activity or by converting self-generated cortical activity into commands for external assistive devices. In-depth studies of cerebral cortex connectivity, function and neural hierarchical coding mechanisms can provide novel solutions for BCI-based treatments. This review summarizes the fundamental principles and history of BCI technology and current research progress, including the utilization of known cortical functions and the potential impact of newly discovered cortical functions on the future development of BCI-based applications. The article then systematically reviews the application of BCI technology for the treatment of motor, cognitive, and psychiatric disorders, innovative uses of hydrogels and carbon nanomaterials in BCI systems, and the current limitations and future research directions of BCI systems with respect to the reliability of neural decoding. This article aims to provide clinicians and researchers with the latest progress and a comprehensive overview of BCI applications for diagnosing and treating neurological diseases from in-depth studies on cerebral cortex structure and function, and to propose potential future applications based on interdisciplinary approaches, especially in enhancing the reliability of neural decoding.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"55 ","pages":"Pages 1-40"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144891918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond objects and processes: Interfaces and the non-dual ground of perception and cognition. Comment on “Thoughts and Thinkers” by C. Fields and M. Levin","authors":"R. Prentner","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 229-230"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144878461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bridging dynamical systems theory and cross-species experimental validation: Comment on “Entrainment by transcranial alternating current stimulation: Insights from models of cortical oscillations and dynamical systems theory” by M. Madadi Asl and A. Valizadeh","authors":"Xinchen Li , Changhong Han , Yanmin Liu , Peng Ji","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 227-228"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144864691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fostering mathematical models of slow spontaneous oscillations in the human brain: Comment on “dark brain energy: toward an integrative model of spontaneous slow oscillations” by Zhu-Qing Gong and Xi-Nian Zuo","authors":"Xiu-Xia Xing","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 221-224"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144827332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinkers Without Thoughts: An Info-Computational Proposal. Comment on \"Thoughts and Thinkers: On the Complementarity Between Objects and Processes\" by Chris Fields & Michael Levin","authors":"Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 225-226"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144864690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Felipe De Brigard, Shenyang Huang, Roberto Cabeza, Simon Davis
{"title":"Beyond task-based connectivity in fMRI: Reply to comments on “Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI” by Shenyang Huang, Felipe De Brigard, Roberto Cabeza, Simon W. Davis","authors":"Felipe De Brigard, Shenyang Huang, Roberto Cabeza, Simon Davis","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 211-214"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144773065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brain networkness: from dynamics to function and dysfunction reply to comments on: “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics”","authors":"D. Papo , J.M. Buldú","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"55 ","pages":"Pages 41-45"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144891919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells , Jennifer Grau-Sánchez , Clément François
{"title":"Against a “Lego perspective” on art and health interventions: comment on “Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique” by Martin Skov & Marcos Nadal","authors":"Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells , Jennifer Grau-Sánchez , Clément François","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 218-220"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144809953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To punch down or to build up: Comment on “Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique “ by Skov & Nadal","authors":"Edward A. Vessel","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 207-210"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144768182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on “Viscoelastic mechanics of living cells” by Hui Zhou, Ruye Liu, Yizhou Xu, Jierui Fan, Xinyue Liu, Longquan Chen, Qiang Wei","authors":"Guang-Kui Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Life Reviews","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 205-206"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144738555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}