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Category: Neuroscience
BRAIN implants containing microelectrodes are used widely in the laboratory and clinic, both to stimulate nerve cells and to record their activity. Researchers routinely implant electrode arrays into the brains of rodents to investigate the neuronal activity associated with spatial...
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Category: Neuroscience
Neuroscience takes us one step closer to Second Life avatars which can transfer sensations to the body of the user
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Category: Technology
A team of electrical engineers demonstrates for the very first time that the flight of freely flying insects can be controlled remotely using a neural stimualtion device.
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Category: Technology
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a microscope attachment which enables a standard mobile phone with a camera to be used for high-resolution clinical microscopy.
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Category: Technology
I have finally jumped on the bandwagon and started to use Twitter. I had avoided it because I couldn't understand why anyone would want to share the mundane details of their life with others, but am now beginning to see...
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Category: Neuroscience
A short piece in the MIT Technology Review describes a new retinal implant designed to remain in place for long periods of time: In retinal diseases such as acute macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, the light-sensing cells of the...
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Category: Technology
Last week, the number of subscribers to this blog's RSS feed passed the 2,000 mark, after teetering just below that number for a couple of months. It's very gratifying to know that so many people enjoy my writing, and although...
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Category: Neuroscience
Last week, I wote about the robot controlled by a "brain" in a culture dish, and in that post, I mentioned that several other groups, including members of the Neuroengineering Lab at Georgia Tech, have been doing similar work. Steve...
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Category: Neuroscience
Researchers from the Cybernetic Intelligence Research Group at the University of Reading have developed a robot whose movements are controlled by neurons growing in a culture dish.The robot's "brain" consists of several hundred thousand neurons isolated from embryonic rat neocortex....
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Category: Technology
The use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs, or roadside bombs) has led to an increase in the numbers of troops sustaining traumatic brain injury during military service in Afghanistan and Iraq. Such injuries are caused by the high pressure shock...
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