Walking across the room to switch on a light – such a simple everyday activity involves enormously complex computations by the brain as it requires interpretation of the scene, control of the gait and planning upcoming movements such as the arm movement to the light switch. Neuroscientists at the German Primate Center (DPZ) – Leibniz...
Tag: <span>Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)</span>
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Brain-Computer Interface Lets Man with Complete Spinal Cord Injury Feel and Move His Hand
Spinal cord injuries can leave people paralyzed and without a sense of touch in much of the body. While there’s been a tremendous amount of work in the past decade to overcome paralysis by using brain-computer interfaces to bypass damaged spinal cords, providing a sense of touch is a necessity for truly proper treatment. As...
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CWRU School of Medicine researchers create first artificial human prion
Finding may shed added light on, offer treatment hope for brain-wasting diseases CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers have synthesized the first artificial human prion, a dramatic development in efforts to combat a devastating form of brain disease that has so far eluded treatment and a cure. The new findings are...
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Combined rTMS and virtual reality brain-computer interface training for motor recovery after stroke
Abstract OBJECTIVE: Combining repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) with brain-computer interface (BCI) training can address motor impairment after stroke by down-regulating exaggerated inhibition from the contralesional hemisphere and encouraging ipsilesional activation. The objective was to evaluate the efficacy of combined rTMS + BCI, compared to sham rTMS + BCI, on motor recovery after stroke in subjects with lasting motor...
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Test subjects type fast – using only their brains
Brain-computer interfaces are able to translate commands in the mind into real-world actions When a person suffers paralysis, a fully functioning brain can be trapped inside an immobile body. More and more, brain-computer-interface (BCI) technology is coming to the rescue in such cases, allowing paralyzed people to do everything from operating a speech computer to controlling an...
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The age of the BIONIC BODY: From robot hands controlled by your mind to electronic eyeballs, experts reveal 6 medical marvels introduced by new technology
While bionic limbs once belonged in science fiction, today it is less extraordinary Last week, paralysed former policewoman Nicki Donnelly walked on robotic legs Today, experts reveal six other robotic limbs that may change medicine for ever When The Six Million Dollar Man first aired in the Seventies, with its badly injured astronaut being rebuilt...