From enhancing medicines for neurological and psychiatric illnesses to boosting human potential, neurotechnology is a growing field worth watching.
FREMONT, CA: Neurotechnology is the use of technology to help the nervous system work better. Neurotechnology records brain signals and "translates" them into technical control commands (like our brain-controlled computer mouse) or changes brain activity using electrical or optical stimuli. These parts can be computers, electrodes, or any other technology that can be set up to work with the electric pulses running through our bodies. Neurotechnology has a lot of different uses, from improving academic research to developing brain-machine interfaces and more.
Brain-machine interfaces
A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a computer-based system that receives, analyzes, and transforms brain impulses into commands for devices that create the desired output. In a medical environment, the primary function of BCI is therapeutic - restoring normal neuromuscular function to patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cerebral palsy, stroke, or spinal cord injury. By translating brain signals into computer commands, patients can move a cursor, type on a keyboard, and handle prosthetics using only their minds.
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