Not exact matches
When former President Barack Obama launched the
BRAIN Initiative five years ago (SN: 2/22/14, p. 16), the goal was to support technologies that would, in part, «open new doors to explore how the brain records, processes, uses, stores and retrieves vast quantities of information,» according to the White H
BRAIN Initiative five years ago (SN: 2/22/14, p. 16), the goal was to support
technologies that would, in part, «open new doors to explore how the
brain records, processes, uses, stores and retrieves vast quantities of information,» according to the White H
brain records, processes, uses, stores and retrieves vast quantities of information,» according to the White House.
«Man with quadriplegia employs injury bridging
technologies to move again — just by thinking: First recipient of implanted
brain -
recording and muscle - stimulating systems reanimates limb that had been stilled for 8 years.»
Among their goals for this system are: a higher density electrode array to allow for more precise targeting on neurons, new
recording circuits that vastly increase the volume of data captured, and a new wireless power and telemetry
technology that allows for real - time data transmission from the
brain.
«This is the first time [stimulated movement has] been linked to signals
recorded from within the
brain,» says biomedical engineer Chad Bouton, one of the study's authors and vice president of advanced engineering and
technology at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York.
Researchers at Brown University and the Georgia Institute of
Technology used neuroimaging and a
brain wave — tracking approach called polysomnography to
record activity in four
brain networks in 11 individuals as they slept on two nights about a week apart.
The report highlights the need for cheaper, faster
technologies that can trace connections between individual
brain cells and
record large networks of cells acting in synchrony.
$ 20 million for the National Science Foundation (NSF), to support research into the development of nanoscale probes that can
record the activity of neural networks; information processing
technology that can handle the flood of data generated by
BRAIN research; and better understanding of the neural representation of thoughts, emotions, actions, and memories
Moran Cerf at the California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, and colleagues recruited 12 volunteers who had electrodes implanted in their
brains to
record epileptic seizures.
In part, Rao says, this is because
technology has limited the field to
recording brain activity for days to weeks at most, and in artificial inpatient settings.
The researchers used two - photon calcium imaging and patch - clamp electrophysiology, two sophisticated
technologies that allowed the researchers to
record the signals from individual
brain cells.
Thin - film microelectrode arrays produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have enabled development of an automated system to sort
brain activity by individual neurons, a
technology that could open the door to
recording and analyzing unprecedented amounts of neural signals over time...
To extend the capabilities of this
technology beneath the cortex, an optrode system for targeted deep
brain stimulation and
recording will be developed and integrated into the optical apparatus.
Dec. 12, 2017 - Thin - film microelectrode arrays produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have enabled development of an automated system to sort
brain activity by individual neurons, a
technology that could open the door to
recording and analyzing unprecedented amounts of neural signals over time...
Using EEG to measure
brain function, eye tracking
technology to measure visual attention, and automated
recording techniques to assess behavior and speech, children will be monitored over a six - month period.
But, rather than studying the entire nervous system of a single model organism, Professor Graybiel has studied one
brain region — a portion of the basal ganglia known as the striatum — in mice, rats, cats, monkeys, and humans using a whole range of
technologies from microscopy through electrophysiological
recordings to genetics.
OZ, India, USA etc have experienced very extreme long periods of drought and flooding over the paleoclimate
record and at present we are fortunate that we live in a modern era with better monitoring and forecasting of weather, backed up with modern
technology plus the ability (if we have the
brains) to quickly use more R&D.