What happens to the brain recordings that an implanted stimulator stores? · Grey Matter

Closed-loop devices such as the responsive neurostimulator record activity at the seizure focus continuously and store stretches of it, which are uploaded for the clinicians who adjust the settings.

What happens to the brain recordings that an implanted stimulator stores?

Closed-loop devices such as the responsive neurostimulator record activity at the seizure focus continuously and store stretches of it, which are uploaded for the clinicians who adjust the settings. Those years of intracranial recordings are also research data: pooled from 37 people, they revealed that seizure risk follows cycles of weeks. Such data are health data covered by medical privacy rules, and the questions of who may reuse them, for what, and with what consent are the same ones that neural data laws raise for consumer devices, answered here by research ethics instead.