神经技术是一个新兴领域，具有与数字电子和信息技术一样革命性的潜力。它汇集了基础科学，工程学，计算机科学和翻译/临床研究，以实现评估和治疗神经系统疾病并开发新的创新技术以恢复失去的功能的目标。该领域的创新将产生广泛的影响，从先进的人类神经假肢和脑控制的自主机器人到治疗和诊断诸如癫痫病的新型智能植入技术，或促进中风康复的外部设备，再到计算的新范例以及模仿人脑功能的信息处理。神经技术在科学，工程和医学的前沿交叉领域，具有催化21世纪重大科学和医学进步的潜力。
Neurotechnology is an emerging field with the potential to be as revolutionary as digital electronics and information technologies. It brings together basic science, engineering, computer science and translational/clinical research to achieve its goals of evaluating and treating disorders of the nervous system and developing new innovative technologies to restore lost function. The innovations in this field will have a broad impact, from advanced human neural prosthetics and brain-controlled autonomous robots to novel intelligent implantable technologies to treat and diagnose diseases such as epilepsy, or external devices to promote recovery from stroke, to new paradigms in computing and information processing that emulate human brain function. Neurotechnologies, at the frontier crossing of science, engineering and medicine, offer the potential of catalyzing major scientific and medical advances in the 21st century.