But it wasn't until May this year that researchers measured the firing of mirror neurons in humans directly,
using electrodes implanted in the brains of epileptic patients awaiting surgery (Current Biology, vol 20, p 750).
Using
electrodes implanted in the brains of three people to treat their epilepsy, Edward Chang and colleagues at the University of California in San Francisco mapped brain activity as the volunteers spoke in English.
Youssef Ezzyat, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues studied memory abilities in 25 people who had
electrodes implanted in their brains as part of their epilepsy treatment.
Scientists at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn sparked a media frenzy six years ago when they demonstrated that rats with electrodes implanted in their brains [subscription required] could be steered like remote - controlled toy cars through an obstacle course.
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.
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).
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
Using electrodes implanted in the brains of three people to treat their epilepsy, Edward Chang and his colleagues at the University of California mapped brain activity in each volunteer's motor cortex as they pronounced words in American English.
Scientists at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn sparked a media frenzy two years ago when they demonstrated that rats
with electrodes implanted in their brains could be steered like remote - controlled toy cars through an obstacle course.
These patients agreed to have their memory investigated using
the electrodes implanted in their brains for surgical evaluation.
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.
To investigate the mechanisms underlying seizures, Klaus Lehnertz, a physicist at the University of Bonn's Clinic of Epileptology, and his colleagues studied brain electrical activity (EEG) measurements taken from 16 epileptic patients with
electrodes implanted in their brains.
«Breakthrough for
electrode implants in the brain.»
How one woman learned to use
the electrodes implanted in her brain as an extension of her nervous system.
Epilepsy patients commonly have
electrodes implanted in their brain to help doctors pinpoint the location of their seizures.
Deep - brain stimulation uses
electrodes implanted in the brain to manipulate neurons responsible for tremors associated with Parkinson's disease.
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.
HAVING
electrodes implanted in your brain is a drastic measure, but for many people with Parkinson's disease, deep brain stimulation offers a new lease of life.
sparked a media frenzy two years ago when they demonstrated that rats with
electrodes implanted in their brains could be steered like remote - controlled toy cars through an obstacle course.
So you created that neural microphone — a silicon chip with 100
electrodes implanted in the brain — and connected it with wires to a computer.
Electrodes implanted in the brain that electrically stimulate specific regions are now being tested as treatments for depression and other mental illnesses; conceivably this technology also could be used to induce mystical states.
As of 2010, 30,000 people have had
electrodes implanted in their brains to help them cope with Parkinson's disease.
Kahana and his colleagues have long conducted research with epilepsy patients who have
electrodes implanted in their brains as part of their treatment.
This means that if a person has
electrodes implanted in their brain, every time they take a breath that stiff electrode rubs against their squishy brain and causes a little bit of damage.
In animals, EEG signals are usually recorded using
electrodes implanted in the brain; the majority of theta studies have involved electrodes implanted in the hippocampus.