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Prostheses could one day be wirelessly controlled by our thoughts

from Technology Networks via Stanford Medicine

Prostheses could one day be wirelessly controlled by our thoughts Technology Networks via Stanford Medicine Stanford researchers have been working for years to advance a technology that could one day help people with paralysis regain use of their limbs, and enable amputees to use their thoughts to control prostheses and interact with computers. The team has been focusing on improving a brain-computer interface, a device implanted beneath the skull on the surface of a patient's brain. This implant connects the human nervous system to an electronic device that might, for instance, help restore some motor control to a person with a spinal cord injury, or someone with a neurological condition like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called Lou Gehrig's disease. READ MORE

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