News tagged with neurotechnology

Scientists develop novel use of neurotechnology to solve classic social problem

Economists and neuroscientists from the California Institute of Technology have shown that they can use information obtained through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measurements of whole-brain activity to create ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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




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Advanced technology reveals activity of single neurons during seizures

The first study to examine the activity of hundreds of individual human brain cells during seizures has found that seizures begin with extremely diverse neuronal activity, contrary to the classic view that they are characterized ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Brain-machine interfaces offer improved options for prosthetics and treatments after injury

Two experimental brain-machine technologies — deep brain stimulation coupled with physical therapy and a thought-controlled computer system—may offer new therapies for people with stroke and brain injuries, new ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Soldiers' helmets could control brain activity with ultrasound

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of DARPA's latest pursuits of cutting-edge research involves a neurotechnology lab at Arizona State University that specializes in ultrasonic brain stimulation. By implementing the technology ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (24) | comments 24 | with audio podcast weblog

New Stanford-led program aims to produce insights into brain injury, recovery

Researchers at four institutions, led by Stanford University and Brown University, have begun an effort with more than $14 million of federal funding to learn both how the brain and its microcircuitry react to sudden physiological ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 04, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers to study how the brain 'rewires itself'

(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher from UCL is part of a US-led team investigating how the brain and its microcircuitry react to physiological changes and what could be done to encourage its recovery from injury. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Online e-expo features more than 100 university robotics labs

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to bring together the top academic robotics labs under one roof, a project called EXPO21XX has created an online exhibition to showcase the diversity in today's robotics research. ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Playing 'Pong' with the blink of an eye (w/ Video)

University students have developed a computer game that is operated by eye movements, which could allow people with severe physical disabilities to become 'gamers' for the first time, they announce today.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Organization analyzes how new war weapons will impact society

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the year 2009, when astronauts live in a space station, people send messages around the world with the touch of a finger, and diseases such as polio have virtually been eradicated from ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Brain-computer interface, developed at Brown, begins new clinical trial

BrainGate, an investigational technology being developed to detect brain signals and to allow people with paralysis to use those signals to control assistive devices, is about to begin a second, larger clinical trial. The ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Students Develop 'Mind-Control' Interface to Play Video Games Without a Controller

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drexel University students have taken game controller innovation beyond motion control with a “hands-off” approach and developed an interface that allows players to execute actions using only ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 3


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