It was an easy decision for J. Galen Buckwalter, a 69-year-old quadriplegic living in Southern California, to undergo a craniotomy in 2024. The operation, which involved inserting 384 electrodes in his brain and a large titanium plate in his skull, allows researchers to record data about how his neurons operate, potentially helping future paralysis patients. The hard part, Buckwalter says, has been giving up the right to access and own his neural data and feel assured that it will be kept priv
