Here is a different approach to measuring brain activity in humans. Researchers in Japan are placing a sheet of electrodes inside the skull but on top of the cortex. Researchers at Osaka University are stepping up efforts to develop robotic...
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Posted on April 18, 2008 12:55 PM • 0 Comments •
Doctors at the University of Navarra have implanted an auditory brainstem implant (ABI) in the youngest patient ever attempted -- a 13 month-old girl: A team of ear, nose and throat specialists and neurosurgeons at the University Hospital of Navarra,...
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Posted on February 26, 2008 1:08 PM • 0 Comments •
Totally effective, side-effect free treatment of Parkinson's continues to elude physicians, but a study by Deuschl et al in the NEJM shows that we are definitely making progress. Deuschl et al performed a randomized study that assigned patients into one...
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Posted on December 4, 2006 8:24 PM • 3 Comments •
The most recent issue of Nature has a paper by the Donoghue lab at Brown about their project implanting an ensemble of electrodes into the motor cortex of a paraplegic. Signals from the electrodes were decoded and used to run...
Posted on July 13, 2006 2:03 AM • 1 Comments •
Misha at Mind Hacks has a great update on brain-computer interface advances....
Posted on July 10, 2006 11:42 PM • 0 Comments •
Popular Science has a great article on the recent advances in prosthetics. They hit on one of the topics that I think has been really under-researched: neural to machine interfaces. What you would really like to do with a prosthetic...
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Posted on July 3, 2006 12:31 AM • 1 Comments •