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Brain-Machine Interface Moves a Paralysed Hand
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[23/04/2012] A new Northwestern Medicine brain-machine technology delivers messages from the brain directly to the muscles - bypassing the spinal cord - to enable voluntary and complex movement of a paralysed hand. The device could eventually be tested on, and perhaps aid, paralysed patients. Brain-Machine Interface Moves a Paralysed Hand - Read more
Finding the Right Connection
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[13/08/2009] Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have demonstrated that regenerating axons can be guided to their correct targets and re-form connections after spinal cord injury. Finding the Right Connection - Read more
Quadriplegics Can Operate Powered Wheelchairs
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[16/07/2009] An assistive technology enables quadriplegics to maneuver a powered wheelchair or control a mouse cursor using simple tongue movements. Quadriplegics Can Operate Powered Wheelchairs - Read more
Jack of Medical Trades (Part 1)
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[15/03/2009] by Wiebke Heiss / MEDICA.de
Actually, it is a made-up-word: microsystems technology. In fact, the term describes many things as long as they are optical, mechanical or electrical and as long as the systems are tiny. Moreover they hover around everywhere: In CD players, airbags or printers - and with great potential in medical applications. Jack of Medical Trades (Part 1) - Read more
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