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• Our future brain: damage-resistant with unique new abilities

  Neurons made from exotic nanomaterials could one day enable humans to survive even the most horrendous accident, and as a bonus, provide amazing new capabilities. Nanoengineer John Burch, co-designer of the nanofactory video, “ Productive Nanosystems Read More...
  Posted Monday, September 01, 2008 7:32 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Cyborgs, Neural interfaces, cognitive enhancement

• Growing Neural Implants

  Conductive polymer coatings that weave their way into implanted tissue might one day improve the performance of medical implants, such as cochlear implants and brain stimulators used to treat Parkinson's disease. In early studies, neural interfaces Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:11 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neuroscience, Neural interfaces, brain implants

• New Device Measures Astronaut Fatigue, Depression

  Just when you thought your privacy couldn't be invaded anymore, a team of researchers are working on a device for NASA that would be able to detect brain injury, stress, fatigue and depression. The brain cap sends weak pulses of near-infrared light Read More...
  Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 4:47 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neural interfaces, biofeedback

• A Prosthesis for Speech; Decoding neural signals for speech may give voice to the voiceless

  For more than eight years, Erik Ramsey has been trapped in his own body. At 16, Ramsey suffered a brain-stem injury after a car crash, leaving him with a condition known as "locked-in" syndrome. Unlike other forms of paralysis, locked-in patients Read More...
  Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:45 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neural interfaces, speech synthesizer

• Want to enhance your brain power?

  A little brain boost is something we could all use now and then. A new option may be on the horizon. Researchers at the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, in Bethesda, MD, are studying how applying gentle electrical current to the Read More...
  Posted Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:44 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neural interfaces, Transcranial magnetic stimulation, cognitive enhancement

• Neural Implant That Learns With The Brain May Help Paralyzed Patients

  Devices known as brain-machine interfaces could someday be used routinely to help paralyzed patients and amputees control prosthetic limbs with just their thoughts. Now, University of Florida researchers have taken the concept a step further, devising Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:40 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neural interfaces, brain computer interface

• Pentagon to Merge Next-Gen Binoculars With Soldiers' Brains

  With the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System, DARPA hopes to integrate technologies from flat-field, wide-angle optics to the use of advanced EEGs to rapidly recognize brainwave signatures. ... Read more
  Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 10:26 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 2 Comments

  Tags: Neural interfaces, DARPA, Military technology

• Deep brain implants show bionic vision promise

  Harvard Medical School researchers have shown that phosphenes can be produced by deep brain stimulation of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), an area deep in the center of the brain that relays visual signals from the retina to the cortex.... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:33 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neural interfaces, Artificial eyes

• The Memory Hacker

  USC's Center for Neural Engineering researchers have developed a chip that can communicate with brain cells, a first step toward an implantable machine that could restore memories in people with brain damage or help them make new ones. ... Read more
  Posted Sunday, April 08, 2007 8:54 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 1 Comments

  Tags: Neural interfaces

• A Light Switch for the Brain

  Scientists have developed a light-triggered switch to control brain cells, which could aid in the development of therapies for epilepsy and other diseases--and shed light on the neural code.... Read more
  Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:40 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Neural interfaces