Nerves and Computers... what residency?

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so if i wanted to do work invovling new technologies that allowed communication to and from the brain with a computer or similar electronic device, what specialty should i go into???

im thinking neurology because they focus on the actual functioning of the nervous system.

but they dont actually do anything to the body physically do they?? or do they perform any "minimally invasive" procedures??

so with that im thinking maybe neurosurgery??? there would likely be some surgical procedures involved, however these would really be minimal, just to allow an electrical connection to a periphial or central nerve for communications in something.

or is this what interventional neurology would do??

thoughts??

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Not sure medicine is what you're after. Perhaps a graduate degree in biomedical engineering. Neurosurgeons and neurologists may both be involved in researching such things but likely neurosurgeons would be the ones actually installing such devices as they do with deep brain stimulators and vagal nerve stimulators. "Interventional neurologists" are pure endovascular interventionalists. They are not involved in opening the skull.
 
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