Sentences with phrase «nervous system interface»

This design may provide unique opportunities for emerging classes of prostheses and peripheral nervous system interface technologies.

The study helps sort out how sex - specific components of the central nervous system interface with other parts of it, he adds.

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Neural prosthetics, one of the newest faces of biomedical engineering, involves a wide variety of prosthetic implants that interface with the nervous system to replace the body's damaged circuitry.

«One of the big visions of my group is to create these very efficient bidirectional interfaces with the nervous system and couple that with intelligence to really understand the signals of disease and then to be able to treat disease in an intelligent, methodical way,» Muller said.

Her research group specializes in bidirectional electronic interfaces with human body, specifically in the brain and peripheral nervous system.

Using what are called brain — machine interfaces (BMIs)-- essentially cyborg connections between prosthetic devices and the nervous system — researchers for the first time were able to show that the process of learning to use a BMI - controlled device can trigger significant neurological recovery in patients with chronic spinal cord injuries.

Sophisticated neuroimaging machines and brain - computer interfaces detect the electrical activity of neurons, enabling us to decode and even alter the nervous system signals that accompany mental processes.

In a companion article, «Melding Mind and Machine,» Ariel Bleicher reports on next - generation exoskeletons that will have brain - machine interfaces to communicate directly with the user's nervous system.

His discovery made the eye a candidate for neural prosthetics — devices that interface with the nervous system to restore function lost to disease or injury.

Our current research focuses on identifying the molecular and cellular interface that blood proteins use to interact with and change the functions of cells in the nervous system.

She soon realized, however, that the implants were cumbersome and largely incompatible with the nervous system, whose elastic properties are a far cry from the metals and glasses that make up most brain - machine interface devices.

The convergence of artificial intelligence and brain - computer interfaces may soon restore sight to the blind, allow the paralyzed to move robotic limbs and cure any number of brain and nervous system disorders.

A team led by Dr. Alexey Terskikh at Sanford - Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford - Burnham) recently found that expression of a gene called SOX2 maintains the potential for neural crest stem cells to become neurons in the peripheral nervous system, where they interface with muscles and other organs.

Studies point to the important interface of the central nervous system and hormones, known as the hypothalamus - pituitary - adrenal axis (HPA - axis).

These findings demonstrate that the adipocyte circadian clock acts at the interface between the central nervous system and the predominant peripheral energy storage tissue to coordinate the temporal organization of feeding behavior and maintain energy balance.

Mercedes» interface for this system isn't as intuitive as I'd like, but it's a worthy addition for nervous parkers and urban dwellers who want to avoid curb - rashing those $ 1,250 19 - inch AMG forged wheels.

After completing what is called the mucosal phase of infection where environmental interfaces are attacked (as described by the above GI and respiratory disease), the virus proceeds to the central nervous system for its neurologic phase leading to:

Amacher's concept of the «difference tone» takes the human nervous system as an interface and the ear as a neurophonic instrument that produces its own tones in response to external vibrations.

11 020201 Neural engineers have made significant, if not remarkable, progress in interfacing with the nervous system in the last ten years.