Stanford scientists seek to speak the brain’s language to heal its disease
From: Stanford Report - 10/17/2017
By: Nathan Collins

Brain-machine interfaces now treat neurological disease and change the way
people with paralysis interact with the world. Improving those devices
depends on getting better at translating the language of the brain.

Stanford researchers including Krishna Shenoy, a professor of electrical
engineering, and Jaimie Henderson, a professor of neurosurgery, are bringing
neural prosthetics closer to clinical reality. Over the course of nearly two
decades, Shenoy, the Hong Seh and Vivian WM Lim Professor in the School of
Engineering, and Henderson, the John and Jene Blume-Robert and Ruth Halperin
Professor, developed a device that, in a clinical research study, gave people
paralyzed by accident or disease a way to move a pointer on a computer screen
and use it to type out messages. In similar research studies, people were
able to move robotic arms with signals from the brain.

Read the entire article and view a video (3:04) at:
https://news.stanford.edu/2017/10/17/speaking-the-brains-language-to-treat-disease
https://www.mdtmag.com/news/2017/10/stanford-scientists-seek-speak-brains-language-heal-its-disease

Links:
Listening in on the brain: a 15-year odyssey
https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/listening-brain-15-year-odyssey

Researchers want to heal the brain. Should they enhance it as well?
https://news.stanford.edu/2017/10/17/researchers-want-heal-brain-enhance-well

Related:
How video goggles and a tiny implant could cure blindness
http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017summer/smart-goggles-tiny-implant-could-cure-blindness.html