Melding Mind and Machine 
Brain-machine interfaces could someday help people with severe paralysis move
  their limbs, walk, and use a computer 
From: IEEE - The Institute - 06/2008 - page 5
By: Michael J. Riezenman

Mind control is generally regarded as scary - conjuring up The Manchurian
Candidate and other depictions of brainwashing. But recent refinements of
brain-machine interfacing (BMI) may redefine the expression to mean something
totally different: control by, not of, the mind. It is a field that holds out
the hope of allowing severely paralyzed people to communicate with the world,
move their limbs, and even walk. 

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Links:
Neuroprosthetics Research Group
http://nrg.mbi.ufl.edu/

Justin C. Sanchez, PhD
http://mdc.mbi.ufl.edu/sanchez.htm
http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/oldgrad.php?name=justin

John G. Harris
http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/analog/harris.html

Signal Processing Challenges for Neural Prostheses
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?isnumber=4404853&arnumber=4408439&count=33&index=9

Michael Linderman
http://www.stanford.edu/~mlinderm/