#neural prosthesis

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DARPA's 'Cortical Modem' will plug straight into your BRAIN

Who needs tech specs when you could have a $10 HUD on your visual cortex?

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I still certainly do derive a lot of inspiration for what I do from the prospects of mechanical augmentation, neural prosthesis. Deus Ex: Human Revolution has to be one of my most beloved games as it captures the dream vividly! On this blog you can certainly expect me to make posts about advances in that technology from both the computer side of things as well as the neurological. However keep in mind this blog will be dedicated to real-life application and actual research. No worries though! I will interpret the research for you all to enjoy :)

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Brain Implant Improves Thinking in Monkeys, First Such Demonstration in Primates

Scientists have designed a brain implant that sharpened decision making and restored lost mental capacity in monkeys, providing the first demonstration in primates of the sort of brain prosthesis that could eventually help people with damage from dementia, strokes or other brain injuries.

The device, though years away from commercial development, gives researchers a model for how to support and enhance fairly advanced mental skills in the frontal cortex of the brain, the seat of thinking and planning.

The new report appeared Thursday in The Journal of Neural Engineering.

In just the past decade, scientists have developed brain implants that improve vision or allow disabled people to use their thoughts to control prosthetic limbs or move computer cursors. The new paper, led by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California, describes a device that improves brain function internally, by fine-tuning communication among neurons.

Previous studies have shown that a neural implant can do this for memory in rodents, but the new report extends that work significantly, experts said — into brains that are much closer to those of humans. >>Continue Reading<<

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Neural prosthesis restores normal behavior after brain injury

Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and University of Kansas Medical Center have restored behavior — in this case, the ability to reach through a narrow opening and grasp food — using a neural prosthesis in a brain-injured rat.

Ultimately, the team hopes to develop a device that rapidly and substantially improves function after brain injury in humans. >>Continue Reading<<

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Neural Prosthesis Restores Behavior After Brain Injury

Dec. 9, 2013 — Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and University of Kansas Medical Center have restored behavior -- in this case, the ability to reach through a narrow opening and grasp food -- using a neural prosthesis in a rat model of brain injury.

Ultimately, the team hopes to develop a device that rapidly and substantially improves function after brain injury in humans. There is no such commercial treatment for the 1.5 million Americans, including soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, who suffer traumatic brain injuries (TBI), or the nearly 800,000 stroke victims who suffer weakness or paralysis in the United States, annually.

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