Stanford Joins BrainGate Team Developing Brain-Computer Interface to Aid
  People with Paralysis
From: Stanford University - 11/11/2011
By: Tanya Lewis 

Stanford University researchers have joined the BrainGate research project,
which is investigating the feasibility of people with paralysis using a
technology that interfaces directly with the brain to control computer
cursors, robotic arms, and other assistive devices. The project is based on
technology developed by researchers at Brown and Harvard universities,
Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical
Center. BrainGate is a hardware/software-based system that senses electrical
signals in the brain that control movement. Computer algorithms translate the
signals into instructions that enable users with paralysis to control
external devices. "One of the biggest contributions that Stanford can offer
is our expertise in algorithms to decode what the brain is doing and turn it
into action," says Stanford's Jaimie Henderson. He is working with Stanford
professor Krishna Shenoy, who is focusing on understanding how the brain
controls movement and translating that knowledge into neural prosthetic
systems controlled by software. "The BrainGate program has been a model of
innovation and teamwork as it has taken the first giant steps toward turning
potentially life-changing technology into a reality," Shenoy says. The
researchers recently showed that the system allowed a patient to control a
computer cursor more than 1,000 days after implementation. 

Read the entire article at:
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2011/november/braingate.html

Links:
BrainGate
http://www.braingate.com/

Jaimie Henderson
http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Jaimie_Henderson/
http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-jaimie-henderson-3dflw/office-locations

Krishna Shenoy
http://www.stanford.edu/~shenoy/