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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.

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 his colleagues at the University of California mapped brain activity in each volunteer's motor cortex as they pronounced words in American English.

Not exact matches

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.

Costa and Jin implanted tiny electrodes in each mouse's brain to record the activity of neurons within the striatum, a structure deep in the brain known to be involved in motor commands.

Implanted electrodes that sit next to neurons have in the past detected these signals, which are thought to help the brain build maps of the environment.

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.

Josef Parvizi at Stanford University in California and his colleagues implanted electrodes in the brains of two people with epilepsy to help treat their seizures.

Last spring Deisseroth's group published an optogenetics study that helped to elucidate the workings of deep - brain stimulation, which uses electrodes implanted deep in the brain to alleviate the abnormal movements of Parkinson's disease.

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.

For the past eight years, he and his colleagues have been studying epilepsy patients who have had electrodes implanted in a region of their brains called the medial temporal lobe, as part of a study to identify the source of their seizures.

Data from electrodes implanted into their brains showed that neurons in the impaired rats fired less often in the presence of odors.

«Hopefully, once we converge upon the nanofabrication techniques that would enable these to be clinically translational, this same methodology could then be applied in getting these extracellular matrix derived electrodes to be the next wave of brain implants,» Karumbaiah said.

Electrodes were implanted in the part of Idoya's brain that controls leg movement; these devices recorded the activity of 250 to 300 neurons that fired when her ankles, knees, hip joints, and feet moved or were about to move.

Merging man and machine The spectacular successes of brain implants in primates has paved the way for new human trials, including one at Brown University, where neuroscientist John Donoghue is moving ahead with BrainGate, a minuscule array of tiny, spikelike electrodes implanted in the motor cortex.

Schroeder and colleagues have caught this action in monkeys» brains, and more recently, in people implanted with electrodes as part of epilepsy treatment.

Miller and colleagues saw this push - and - pull action in the brains of monkeys with implanted electrodes as the animals completed a tricky memory task, one that required the monkeys to hold several pieces of information in their minds at the same time.

Fried led an international team in studying 12 UCLA epileptic patients who had electrodes implanted in their brains in order to pinpoint the origin of their seizures prior to surgery.

Delgado implanted similar electrode arrays, or «stimoceivers,» in the brains of cats, monkeys, chimpanzees, and even human psychiatric patients.

1987 In the first reported therapeutic use of high - frequency deep - brain stimulation (DBS), French doctors implanted electrodes in a patient's brain to send impulses to a region associated with Parkinson's diseasIn the first reported therapeutic use of high - frequency deep - brain stimulation (DBS), French doctors implanted electrodes in a patient's brain to send impulses to a region associated with Parkinson's diseasin a patient's brain to send impulses to a region associated with Parkinson's disease.

How one woman learned to use the electrodes implanted in her brain as an extension of her nervous system.

Donoghue and his team have surgically implanted miniature electrodes in the brains of five patients who had injured spinal cords or who had suffered stroke or disability from ALS.

A brain implant with mobile electrodes that can seek out and connect to individual neurons in the brain has enabled monkeys to regain control of a paralysed wrist.

They took advantage of the fact that some people with Parkinson's disease get electrodes surgically implanted in their brain stem to control their symptoms.

But neither brain scans nor clinical studies of patients with implanted electrodes explained exactly how the cells in these patches work.

Both electrical mapping with the implanted electrodes and the more conventional functional whole - brain imaging in a magnetic scanner identified a cluster of regions in the FFA in both cortical hemispheres of Blackwell's brain that responded strongly to faces.

But neither data from brain scanners — functional magnetic resonance imaging — nor clinical studies of patients with implanted electrodes have explained exactly how the cells in these face patches work.

Before the study began, Abbott agreed to pay the cost of surgically removing the device, which includes two electrodes in the brain and wires that connect them to a battery implanted below the clavicle.

To find this out, researchers implanted tiny electrodes in a region of spiders» brains that would show whether sound was being processed.

In an initial procedure, Dr. Elisevich surgically implanted electrodes into her brain to initiate the monitoring of seizures with a continuous inpatient video electroencephalographic (vEEG).

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.

To locate these areas, surgeons implant electrodes across the surface of the brain that need to stay in place for many days.

The researchers enrolled epilepsy patients at Wake Forest Baptist who were participating in a diagnostic brain - mapping procedure that used surgically implanted electrodes placed in various parts of the brain to pinpoint the origin of the patients» seizures.

In July he and his team published a paper in Nature outlining remarkable progress in picking up brain signals with implanted electrodes and using those signals to control a range of deviceIn July he and his team published a paper in Nature outlining remarkable progress in picking up brain signals with implanted electrodes and using those signals to control a range of devicein Nature outlining remarkable progress in picking up brain signals with implanted electrodes and using those signals to control a range of devicein picking up brain signals with implanted electrodes and using those signals to control a range of devices.

Across a range of disorders, deep - brain stimulation works much the same way: A pacemaker - like device in the chest transmits a signal to the implanted electrode via wires that run underneath the scalp.

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.

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.

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.

However, implanting electrodes through holes in the skull poses a risk of infection and brain damage, so testing on healthy humans is not allowed.

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 hiIn 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 hiin a Spanish bullring as a bull with a radio - equipped array of electrodes, or «stimoceiver,» implanted in its brain charged toward hiin its brain charged toward him.

«Monthly brain cycles predict seizures in patients with epilepsy: Implanted electrodes reveal long - term patterns of seizure risk.»

Since then more than 100 of his epileptic patients with electrodes implanted in their brains for diagnostic purposes have volunteered as subjects for basic research.

Electrodes implanted deep in the brains of epileptic patients have detected single neurons dedicated to the recognition of a particular person in different situations and guises.

But Itzhak Fried, the neurosurgeon who implanted the electrodes in Danny's brain and who leads this UCLA research program, believes he has found «thinking cells» in the brains of subjects like Danny.

Each patient in the study has between 80 and 100 electrodes implanted in regions of the brain that preliminary tests suggested were the source of seizures.

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.

Researchers at the NRC have previously shown that gelatin accelerates brain tissue healing and reduces damage to nerve cells in the case of electrode implants, but only now are they starting to understand how.

Electrodes are implanted into a region just below the thalamus, the quail - egg - shaped structure in the center of the brain.