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Brain-Machine and Related Neural Interface Technologies: Scientific, Technical, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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... refer to a range of devices that 1 2 issues that are increasingly urgent as our understanding "read" the brain or other neural tissue by capturing of the brain advances, as new technologies are developed, electrical signals and decoding their meaning and those and particularly as devices move from research settings that "write" to the brain or other neural tissue by into clinical and consumer contexts. He emphasized that, providing electrical stimulation to affect their function.
From page 2...
... The stimulation developing these technologies. or recording capabilities provided by an implanted device will continue to be slight compared to signals naturally present in the brain because the number of neurons 4 Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a form of brain stimulation in a BMI can effectively reach is very small.
From page 3...
... In comparing Maiques' company hopes to start a clinical trial for that different types of BMIs, he identified challenges related application soon. Maiques said that home use of the to spatial resolution (how well a device discriminates cap would be preferable for certain indications, but that signals that are spatially close to each other)
From page 4...
... drew capacity to affect a user's sense of autonomy. Denison on his experience both as a professor of biology and mentioned the NeuroVista trial where patients reported a consultant for science fiction movies to identify key very different feelings about their implanted devices questions raised by BMIs, particularly those used to following long-term recording of brain activity, with enhance or augment the brain.
From page 5...
... Collinger (University of Pittsburgh) spoke about implanted BMIs that record signals from the READING AND WRITING THE BRAIN FOR MOVEMENT brain's motor cortex7 and decode the information to Session moderator Veljko Dubljević (North Carolina State allow human research subjects to control a robotic hand University)
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... Mushahwar said that wearable devices Justin Lowery (BrainGate Clinical Trial Participant) drew (e.g., clothes as an exoskeleton that provides structural on his experience as a user of an implanted device that support or electrical stimulation when needed)
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... He identified ethical and characterized by hyperactivity in the amygdala. societal issues that devices designed to treat mood 13 fMRI is a brain imaging technique that allows researchers and 12 Deep brain stimulation is a technique in which an electrode is clinicians to map which parts of the brain are active by detecting changes implanted in the brain and provides electrical stimulation in blood flow.
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... and transcranial that oversight of BMIs is conducted by the Office of alternating current stimulation (tACS) are being 14 Neurological and Physical Medicine Devices within the developed for use in wearable devices, but these methods Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
From page 9...
... Using intracranial recordings depression said their experience that brain stimulation from electrodes on the surface of the brain, his research could lead to immediate improvement in their symptoms team has been able to identify brain states that predict led them to conclude that their illness was not their successful recall during a word-based memory task. He "fault." Thyagarajan said that heart pacemakers carry reported that stimulation of the brain's lateral temporal virtually no stigma and wondered how anonymization cortex17 increased successful recall when patients were of device users might influence stigma.
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... , drew upon his experience ONE, a "brain computer interface with [an] augmented at the non-profit Jacobs Institute and his previous reality, wearable speech generating device" designed role as Director of the Office of Neurological and to assist individuals with an impediment to verbal Physical Medicine Devices at the Center for Devices communication.
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... issues related to devices reading thoughts. The promise of personalization for treating disorders, particularly with wearable devices, she said, has 19 As noted in Footnote 6, products for which the developer does not make 20 Planning Committee Members Edward F
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... devices might allow for more universal access to these highlighted responsibility to end-users and patients, technologies. "The ability to understand the human pointing out that, while funding for academic clinical condition through decoding is so powerful and valuable trials is time-limited, trial participants often keep their that we have an imperative to move ahead," she said, implanted devices when the trial concludes.
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... COMMITTEE ON BRAIN-MACHINE AND RELATED NEURAL INTERFACE TECHNOLOGIES: SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, ETHICAL, AND REGULATORY ISSUES, PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP -- IN BRIEF John P Donoghue (Co-chair)


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