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| DATE | 2004-04-20 |
| FROM | From: "Inker, Evan"
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| SUBJECT | RE: [hangout] Brain Chips are coming
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It still wouldn't help....
Regards,
Evan M. Inker (New York) x. 4615
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Richardson [mailto:MRichardson-at-abc.state.ny.us]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:12 AM
To: 'Ruben I Safir'; hangout-at-nylxs.com
Subject: RE: [hangout] Brain Chips are coming
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruben I Safir [mailto:ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:18 AM
> To: hangout-at-nylxs.com
> Subject: [hangout] Brain Chips are coming
>
>
> News-Medical.net
> On-board brain chips could help stroke and cerebral palsy victims
> By: News-Medical
> Published: Sunday, 18-Apr-2004
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> Cyberkinetics Inc has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration
> approval to begin a clinical trial in which four-square-millimetre
> chips will be placed beneath the skulls of paralyzed patients.
>
> The chips could potentially allow patients to control a computer
> simply by thinking about the commands they want executed.
>
> The procedure could lead to novel improvments in the quality of life
> of stroke victims, cerebral palsy and Lou Gehrig's disease sufferers.
>
> Tim Surgeno, Cyberkinetics CEO said "A computer is a gateway to
> everything else these patients would like to do, including motivating
> your own muscles through electrical stimulation, this is a step in the
> process."
>
> Dr. John Donoghue, Cyberkinetics founder and a Brown University
> neuroscientist, attracted controversial attention with his 2002
> research on monkeys.
>
> Three rhesus monkeys were given implants, which were first used to
> record signals from their motor cortex \x{2014} an area of the brain
> that controls movement \x{2014} as they manipulated a joystick with
> their hands. Those signals were then used to develop a program that
> enabled one of the monkeys to continue moving a computer cursor with
> its brain.
>
> The idea is not to stimulate the mind but rather to map neural
> activity so as to discern when the brain is signalling a desire to
> make a particular physical movement.
>
> "We're going to say to a paralyzed patient, 'imagine moving your hand
> six inches to the right,'" Mr. Surgenor said.
>
> Then, he said, researchers will try to identify the brain activity
> associated with that desire. Some day, that capacity could feed into
> related devices, such as a robotic arm, that help patients act on that
> desire.
>
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