Researchers Revolutionize Brain-Computer Interfaces Using Silicon Electronics
From: ECN Magazine - -07/10/2017

Today, implanted electrode devices for stimulating the brain are extremely
crude devices with only a handful of electrodes that are used to mitigate the
effects of Parkinson's, epilepsy, and other neurodegenerative conditions. The
number of patients with these devices is merely tens of thousands because of
the extreme invasiveness of the implantation process and the large size of
the implanted device. The invention of a less invasive implant device with
many more channels that can interact with the brain would result in
revolutionary improvements to brain-machine interfaces, including direct
interfaces to the auditory cortex and the visual cortex, expanding
dramatically the ways in which artificial systems can support brain function.

Thanks to a new four-year $15.8M grant from the US Department of Defense's
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Columbia Engineering
Professor Ken Shepard, a pioneer in the development of electronics that
interface with biological systems, is leading a team to do just that: invent
an implanted brain-interface device that could transform the lives of people
with neurodegenerative diseases or people who are hearing and visually
impaired.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2017/07/researchers-revolutionize-brain-computer-interfaces-using-silicon-electronics

Links:
Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program
http://www.darpa.mil/program/neural-engineering-system-design

Researchers Revolutionize Brain-Computer Interfaces Using Silicon Electronics
http://engineering.columbia.edu/news/ken-shepard-brain-computer-interface

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