Sentences with phrase «neural prostheses»

Nicolelis has faith that science will one day ferret out all the brain's information - processing tricks — or at least enough of them to yield huge improvements in neural prostheses for people who are paralyzed, blind, or otherwise disabled.

Since the early seventies, scientists have been developing brain - machine interfaces; the main application being the use of neural prosthesis in paralyzed patients or amputees.

Current supported funding areas at NINDS and NIMH include counterterrorism and neuroscience research, neural prosthesis program, neural stem cells, adult and pediatric translational research and treatment development, and the NIH neuroscience Blueprint.

Scherberger's experiment, he explains, «was developing neural prostheses, which have a very clear application to human welfare.

Freeman thinks the prospects are good for developing relatively simple neural prostheses, such as devices that improve vision in the blind.

This research sets the groundwork for developing a new generation of more precise, bidirectional neural prostheses.

He is part of a growing movement of researchers struggling to perfect neural prostheses, devices that employ electrodes to receive signals from and transmit them to the brain.

Devices implanted in the brain as neural prosthesis for therapeutic brain stimulation technologies and interfaces for sensory and motor devices, such as artificial limbs, are an important goal for improving quality of life for patients.

In order to develop adaptive neural prostheses we would like to have a better understanding of this basic ability.»

Several teams, including one led by Andrew Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh, have sought to exploit these findings to create neural prostheses for paralyzed patients.

There are surely limits to the brain's ability to make up for scientists» ignorance, as the poor performance of other neural prostheses suggests.

Freeman thinks the prospects are good for developing relatively simple neural prostheses, such as devices that improve vision in the blind or that let paralyzed people send simple commands to a computer.

One potential application of that work is in the building of neural prosthesis, such as an artificial retina.

Dr. Pancrazio joined the Repair and Plasticity Cluster of NIH in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) in January of 2004, where he served as the Program Director for neural engineering and the neural prosthesis program.

«We wanted to test whether mice could learn to control a neural prosthesis by relying uniquely on an artificial sensory feedback signal,» explains Mario Prsa, researcher at UNIGE and the first author of the study.

Instructed by this discovery, Kennedy's vision of a neural prosthesis took hold.

«Developing a neural prosthesis for speech is extremely important to me,» says Kennedy, who, as a neurologist, regularly sees patients with ALS and stroke.

They note that research in this area may eventually have applications in a variety of domains, including in rehabilitation following injury or stroke and the development of brain - computer interfaces and neural prostheses.

Using the potentials of microsystem technology, neural prostheses to restore vision become