====== Explantation ====== To remove. The development of implanted neural [[device]]s to manage neurological and psychiatric [[disorder]]s or to restore loss of physiological function is a rapidly advancing area of [[neuroscience]] [[research]]. Sierra-Mercado et al. from [[Houston]] considered whether [[investigator]]s of brain [[implant]] studies have an obligation to facilitate device [[explantation]] for participants who request it at study conclusion ((Sierra-Mercado D, Zuk P, Beauchamp MS, Sheth SA, Yoshor D, Goodman WK, McGuire AL, Lázaro-Muñoz G. Device Removal Following Brain Implant Research. Neuron. 2019 Sep 4;103(5):759-761. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.024. PubMed PMID: 31487526. )).