News tagged with microelectrodes

The brain speaks: Scientists decode words from brain signals

In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Brain implant reveals the neural patterns of attention

A paralyzed patient implanted with a brain-computer interface device has allowed scientists to determine the relationship between brain waves and attention.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A step toward better brain implants using conducting polymer nanotubes

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Brain implants that can more clearly record signals from surrounding neurons in rats have been created at the University of Michigan. The findings could eventually lead to more effective ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Researchers find that the unexpected is a key to human learning

The human brain's sensitivity to unexpected outcomes plays a fundamental role in the ability to adapt and learn new behaviors, according to a new study by a team of psychologists and neuroscientists from the University of ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Reading the brain without poking it

Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny electrodes that poke into the brain. Now, a ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Liquid metal key to simpler creation of electrodes for microfluidic devices

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a faster, easier way to create microelectrodes, for use in microfluidic devices, by using liquid metal. Microfluidic devices manipulate small amounts of fluid ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanotech coating could lead to better brain implants to treat diseases

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical and materials engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a nanotech coating for brain implants that helps the devices operate longer and could improve treatment for ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

UV LED therapy shows promising results in preventing focal seizures

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School discovered that light from an ultraviolet diode (UV LED) reduced "seizure-like" activity in a rat epilepsy model. During the study, UV light released gamma aminobutyric ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electrochemical technique follows the motion of individual microparticles in space and time

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many bacteria are able to 'swim' through liquids by means of a flagellum. When doing this, some bacteria follow attractants, some flee from harmful substances, and others align themselves using light, gravity, ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The buzz on fruit flies: New role in the search for addiction treatments

Fruit flies may seem like unlikely heroes in the battle against drug abuse, but new research suggests that these insects — already used to study dozens of human disease — could claim that role. Scientists ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electrode

An electrode is an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit (e.g. a semiconductor, an electrolyte or a vacuum). The word was coined by the scientist Michael Faraday from the Greek words elektron (meaning amber, from which the word electricity is derived) and hodos, a way.

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