New Insights Into the Neuroscience Behind Conscious Awareness of Choice
By Lori Dajose When you absentmindedly reach out to pick up your cup of coffee and take a sip, what happens in your brain? Many studies have shown that brain activity begins to ramp up even before you are aware of your choice to move. But this poses a conundrum: Do we have free will […]
Meet a Pioneer in Stroke Recovery
Retired New Jersey schoolteacher Holly Ulland and her son, Aaron, always have been exceptionally close. She described her son as “very compassionate, loves animals, has always been a tinkerer.”
Young and capable, Aaron seemed perfectly healthy, until one January morning in 2019.
Scientists Enable Blind Woman to See Simple Shapes Using Brain Implant
niversity of Utah and Spain’s Miguel Hernandez University successfully created a form of artificial vision for a blind woman using a prosthesis hardwired into her brain.
Experimental Technology Works to Bring Back Sense of Touch for Those Living With Paralysis
Experimental research is aiming to help paralysis victims regain their sense of touch. Miles O’Brien reports on a project run by the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center, which is a consortium of the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and the Cleveland Clinic Neurological […]
This Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm Can Twist, Grasp – And Feel
Nathan Copeland learned to move a robotic arm with this mind, but it was kind of slow. Then researchers gave him touch feedback. NATHAN COPELAND WAS 18 years old when he was paralyzed by a car accident in 2004. He lost his ability to move and feel most of his body, although he does retain a […]
Quadriplegic Man Feeds Himself a Twinkie Utilizing AI, Robotics, and Brain Waves
By Adam Pockross While many a Twinkie eater probably doesn’t spend all that much time savoring their tasty treat, that’s not the case for Robert “Buz” Chmielewski, a quadriplegic for the last 30 years, who just fed himself one of Hostess’ time-honored (and time-defying) yellow cake creations. And you can imagine he savored every morsel of […]
A Brain Implant Restored This Man’s Motion and Sense of Touch
oncoming wave and tumbled into the water. Burkhart was a capable swimmer, but the ocean is unpredictable. The wave slammed him into a sandbar—and that’s when he realized he couldn’t feel his body.
What Is It Like to Regain a Sense of Touch, Only to Lose It Again?
A mind-controlled robotic arm might one day feel real, but for its first two paralyzed users, the sensation is only fleeting. By Rachel Mabe When Nathan Copeland came to, he knew he was paralyzed. Still in the driver’s seat, he looked at the fireman kneeling beside him and said, “I fucked my life up.” The […]
Paralysed man feeds himself with help of implants
A paralysed man has been able to feed himself by using his thoughts to send messages from implants in his brain to ones in his arm. Bill Kochevar, who was paralysed in a cycling accident, said he was “wowed” to regain control of his right arm. Researchers say this is the first time anyone has been able […]
Breakthrough Brain Chip Interface Gives Paralyzed Man Ability to Hold Cup, Play Guitar Hero Again
By Ariana Eunjung Cha Ian Burkhart was only 19 when the accident happened. He had been swimming in the Outer Banks with some buddies when a wave caught him and hurled him into a sandbar, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. But he always held out hope that medical science would one day be able to help him regain […]
