Man-Machine Interface For Paralyzed Patients Gets A Boost

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 20:14 in Health & Medicine

While invasive electrode recordings in humans show long-term promise, non-invasive techniques can also provide effective brain-computer interfacing (BCI) and localization of motor activity in the brain for paralyzed patients with significantly reduced risks and costs as well as novel applications for healthy users. Two issues hamper the ease of use of BCI systems based on non-invasive recording techniques, such as electroencephalography (EEG): Read More...

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