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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
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Category: Neural interfaces
I am a little late to this party, but I do want to talk about this paper in Nature Neuroscience. Moritz et al. implanted an electrode into a monkey's motor cortex. The electrode was designed to only record from a...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:03 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Neural interfaces
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...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:55 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Neural interfaces
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,...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:08 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Parkinson's
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...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:24 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Neural interfaces
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 by NotoriousLTP at 2:03 AM • 1 Comments •
Misha at Mind Hacks has a great update on brain-computer interface advances....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:42 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Neural interfaces
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...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:31 AM • 1 Comments •
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