Brain-Machine Interface Offers Hope to the Paralyzed
From: IEEE Institute Online - 10/27/2009
By: Kathy Kowalenko

The melding of a brain-computer interface with a prosthetic device will let
paralyzed people walk again if IEEE Member Miguel Nicolelis has his way.
Co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering at Duke University Medical
Center, in Durham, NC, Nicolelis and his team are developing a real-time
interface together with a full-body exoskeleton to be controlled by signals
from a paraplegic's brain. 

Read the entire article at:
http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/15472/485758

Links:
Miguel Nicolelis
http://www.nicolelislab.net/
http://www.neuro.duke.edu/faculty/nicolelis/

Walk Again Project
http://www.innf.net/walk_again.php

Monkey’s Thoughts Propel Robot, a Step That May Help Humans
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15robo.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=technology&adxnnlx=1200513706-DcvniVGJe79kATSsAmOkVQ