Sentences with phrase «neural prosthesis»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

Wheeler plans to have a prototype controller ready for testing on a neural - prosthesis user by May 2006.

«What neural prosthetic devices do is communicate seamlessly to an external prosthesis,» Karumbaiah said, «providing independence of function without having to have a person or a facility dedicated to their care.»

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Chang — co-director of the Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses, a UC Berkeley - UC San Francisco collaboration — is both a brain surgeon and a neuroscientist familiar with the field's deep computational frontiers.

«Getting a stable connection,» says William Heetderks, a neural - prosthesis expert at the National Institutes of Health, «is still a bit of an issue.»

The mutability of the neural code is not necessarily bad news for neural - prosthesis designers.

Philip Sabes, UC Berkeley / UC San Francisco Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses, «A Learning - Based Approach to Artificial Proprioception» - February 2015

The company is also involved in experimental projects in neural engineering, such as blink prostheses to treat facial paralysis and neural / myoelectric implants to restore a sense of touch and improve control of prosthetic hands.