Sentences with phrase «by electrodes implanted in their brains»

In 2008, Andrew Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania published a landmark paper describing how two rhesus macaques learned to feed themselves marshmallows and fruit using a crude robotic limb controlled by electrodes implanted in their brains (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature06996).

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The device, developed by Dong Song, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California, consists of electrodes implanted directly in the brain.

Then, Feng recognized a novel opportunity to directly measure whether tDCS generates EFs in deep brain areas among patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, who are often treated by implanting DBS electrodes.

At Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, researchers have surgically implanted electrodes in the brains of monkeys and trained them to move robotic arms at MIT, hundreds of miles away, just by thinking.

To answer these questions, a team of MUSC investigators led by stroke neurologist and physician - scientist Wayne Feng, M.D., MS, attempted something that has never before been tried — they directly measured tDCS - generated EFs in vivo using deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes that were already implanted in patients with Parkinson's disease.

He notes, for instance, that the TI stimulated patches several millimeters across in the rodent's brains — far larger than the precise spots targeted by implanted electrodes.

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.

Giacino made headlines recently for restoring some mental function in a 38 - year - old man by surgically implanting electrodes in his brain.

First, researchers showed that they could create visual images in a blind woman by implanting electrodes directly into her brain.

Using an array of hair - thin electrodes implanted in his brain, a 25 - year - old quadriplegic man was able to operate a computer, open and close a prosthetic hand, and manipulate a robotic arm just by thinking about it, according to a new study.

Using brain data crowdsourced from 22 epilepsy patients with implanted electrodes, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania led by Danielle Bassett have developed a series of algorithms that can predict where in the brain a seizure will originate and which groups of neurons it will likely spread to as it grows.

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A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago shows how amputees can learn to control a robotic arm through electrodes implanted in the brain

To do this, the researchers implanted a four - by - four - millimeter chip composed of 96 electrodes into a subdivision of the PPC called the anterior intraparietal area (AIP), to measure the neural activity of a tetraplegic human who volunteered to take part in a brain - machine interface clinical trial.

Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering have demonstrated a neural prosthetic system that can improve a memory by «writing» information «codes» (based on a patient's specific memory patterns) into the hippocampus of human subjects via an electrode implanted in the hippocampus (a part of the brain involved in making new memories).