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Not exact matches
The prosthesis proposed by John Pezaris, an assistant in neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston — at least
as it's envisioned at this early stage — would be worn like a pair of eyeglasses, with digital cameras over a person's eyes that connect to an
array of
electrodes implanted in the brain.
In a new study by Flesher et al., microelectrode
arrays were implanted into the primary somatosensory cortex of a person with spinal cord injury and, by delivering current through the
electrodes, generated sensations of touch that were perceived
as coming from his own paralyzed hand.
One strategy has been to try to transform the
electrodes from flat sheets into a forest - like
array of carbon pillars, which are then wired together in long alternating rows to serve
as negative and positive
electrodes.
Despite these challenges, Moritz thinks that smaller
electrodes, smart engineering — such
as floating
electrode arrays under the skull — and advances in wireless technology could provide an answer to paralysis in
as little
as 10 years.
Intracortical BCIs such
as BrainGate use a tiny
array of implanted
electrodes to pick up the electrical activity of neurons in the motor cortex of the brain.
In this case, the
array of sensors was formed of 21 ion - selective
electrodes, including some with response to cations (ammonium, sodium), others with response to anions (nitrate, chloride, etc.),
as well
as electrodes with generic (unspecified) response to the varieties considered.
In 1964, José Delgado, a neuroscientist from Yale University, stood in a Spanish bullring
as a bull with a radio - equipped
array of
electrodes, or «stimoceiver,» implanted in its brain charged toward him.
Led by Hong and Majaj, they implanted
arrays of
electrodes in the IT cortex
as well
as in area V4, a part of the visual system that feeds into the IT cortex.
In this application, a nanotube film with an
array of
electrodes can be used
as an electrically configurable diffraction grating for an infrared spectrometer, allowing the wavelength of light to be scanned without moving parts.
The matrix is initialized and refreshed by applying voltage to all conductors of the
array of FETs simultaneously, thus using the plate having the FETs
as one of the two
electrodes for impressing an electric field over the gyricon medium.