neuroprosthetics
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Neuralink Livestreams Paralysed Patient Playing Video Games With His Mind
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup, live-streamed an interview with its first patient on Wednesday. The man in question, a 29-year-old quadriplegic who identifies himself as Noland Arbaugh, said that he has been unable to move his arms or legs for nearly a decade. Using Neuralink’s brain implant, which was inserted in January, the man now…
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Woman’s Experimental Bionic Hand Passes Major Test With Flying Colors
Scientists appear to have developed a hand prosthetic that provides much more control and comfort than those available today. In new research this week, they’ve detailed the case of a Swedish woman who has successfully worn the advanced bionic limb for years with no major issues, while experiencing significantly less pain than before. The woman,…
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In a First, Scientists Used Personalised Brain Stimulation to Successfully Treat a Person’s Severe Depression
For some people with difficult-to-treat depression, a personalised, implanted device for the brain might provide relief when nothing else can, a new case study published Monday suggests. Researchers claim, for the first time, to have used custom-fitted deep brain stimulation to substantially alleviate a patient’s decades-long bout with severe depression. Though there are many questions…
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Using Just His Thoughts, Paralysed Man Texts at a Record-Breaking 16 Words a Minute
For the first time ever, neuroscientists have translated the cognitive signals associated with handwriting into text, and in real time. The new technique is more than twice as fast than the previous method, allowing a paralysed man to text at a rate of 90 characters per minute.