Novel Brain Sensor is WirelessA team of neuroengineers based at Brown Univ. has developed a fully implantable and rechargeable wireless brain sensor capable of relaying real-time broadband signals from up to 100 neurons in freely moving subjects. Several copies of the novel low-power device, described in the Journal of Neural Engineering, have been performing well in animal models for more than year, a first in the brain-computer interface field. Brain-computer interfaces could help people with severe paralysis control devices with their thoughts.Arto Nurmikko, professor of engineering at Brown Univ. who oversaw the device’s invention, is presenting it this week at the 2013 International Workshop on Clinical Brain-Machine Interface Systems in Houston.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/03/novel-brain-sensor-wireless

Novel Brain Sensor is Wireless

A team of neuroengineers based at Brown Univ. has developed a fully implantable and rechargeable wireless brain sensor capable of relaying real-time broadband signals from up to 100 neurons in freely moving subjects. Several copies of the novel low-power device, described in the Journal of Neural Engineering, have been performing well in animal models for more than year, a first in the brain-computer interface field. Brain-computer interfaces could help people with severe paralysis control devices with their thoughts.

Arto Nurmikko, professor of engineering at Brown Univ. who oversaw the device’s invention, is presenting it this week at the 2013 International Workshop on Clinical Brain-Machine Interface Systems in Houston.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/03/novel-brain-sensor-wireless