Tag: PARALYSIS

Chances are you've heard how the great majority of our brain cells sit more or less idle, seemingly just taking up space or doing something we haven't yet figured out. Scientists are finding they may be able to tap into that resource to re-train brains to control paralyzed limbs with a little help from external electrical stimulation. That's a concept proven by scientists at the University of ...

Further hope that victims of paralysis or amputation could one day reclaim some form of motion came this week in the form of a robotically-enhanced, tobacco-chewing moth. The Society for Neuroscience's yearly gathering in San Diego saw a presentation on research in which a tobacco hornworm moth's brain was connected to electrodes and amplifiers at the base of a fairly common kit of robotic ...