Neurotechnology refers to the technology used to study and modify the function of the nervous system. Background When the field of neuroscience began to self-organize in the 1960s, the experimental model was the laboratory rat and the technologies deployed were crude by today's standards. In a typical early example, neuroscientists would implant stimulating or recording electrodes chronically into the rat brain and attempt to use electrical stimulation to change the behavior of the experimental… (More on Neurotechnology)