Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm Moves Individual "Fingers"
From: Medical Design Technology - 02/16/2016

Physicians and biomedical engineers from Johns Hopkins report what they
believe is the first successful effort to wiggle fingers individually and
independently of each other using a mind-controlled artificial "arm" to
control the movement.

The proof-of-concept feat, described online this week in the Journal of
Neural Engineering, represents a potential advance in technologies to restore
refined hand function to those who have lost arms to injury or disease, the
researchers say. The young man on whom the experiment was performed was not
missing an arm or hand, but he was outfitted with a device that essentially
took advantage of a brain-mapping procedure to bypass control of his own arm
and hand.

Read the entire article and view a video (0:54) at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2016/02/mind-controlled-prosthetic-arm-moves-individual-fingers
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/mind_controlled_prosthetic_arm_moves_individual_fingers_
http://www.rehabpub.com/2016/02/new-mind-controlled-prosthesis-engineered-move-individual-fingers

Links:
Mind-Controlled Arm Moves Individual ‘Fingers’
http://www.medicaldesignbriefs.com/component/content/article/1104-mdb/news/24137

Surgeons Complete First Prosthetic Hand with Individual Finger Control
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2016/05/surgeons-complete-first-prosthetic-hand-individual-finger-control